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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: between us without profaning the occasion, so that I could feel at
the end of twenty minutes as if I knew almost everything he might
in kindness have to tell me; knew even why Flora, while I stared at
her from the stalls, had misled me by the use of ivory and crystal
and by appearing to recognise me and smile. She leaned back in her
chair in luxurious ease: I had from the first become aware that
the way she fingered her pearls was a sharp image of the wedded
state. Nothing of old had seemed wanting to her assurance, but I
hadn't then dreamed of the art with which she would wear that
assurance as a married woman. She had taken him when everything
had failed; he had taken her when she herself had done so. His
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