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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: I may say a strangely--charming woman!"
"She has always been to me an object of extreme concern," said Mr. Wentworth.
"We have always desired her happiness."
"Well, here it is!" Felix declared. "I will make her happy.
She believes it, too. Now had n't you noticed that?"
"I had noticed that she was much changed," Mr. Wentworth declared,
in a tone whose unexpressive, unimpassioned quality appeared
to Felix to reveal a profundity of opposition. "It may be that she
is only becoming what you call a charming woman."
"Gertrude, at heart, is so earnest, so true," said Charlotte,
very softly, fastening her eyes upon her father.
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