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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: least answer from his own wit. "Why have you never let me come
before?"
"Because my aunt would have seen you, and I should have had to tell
her how I came to know you."
"And what would have been the objection to that?"
"It would have entailed other explanations; there would at any rate
have been that danger."
"Surely she knew you went every day to church," Stransom objected.
"She didn't know what I went for."
"Of me then she never even heard?"
"You'll think I was deceitful. But I didn't need to be!"
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