The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: in that long walk, then at tea on the lawn, till we went to dress
for dinner, and all the evening at dinner and in this place."
St. George turned his face about with a smile. "I gave it but a
quarter of an hour."
"A quarter of an hour's immense, but I don't understand where you
put it in. In the drawing-room after dinner you weren't reading -
you were talking to Miss Fancourt."
"It comes to the same thing, because we talked about 'Ginistrella.'
She described it to me - she lent me her copy."
"Lent it to you?"
"She travels with it."
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