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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: that the features she thus scanned and associated were totally
unaware of it, that they glowed only with the colour of quite other
and not at all guessable thoughts, this directly added to their
splendour, gave the girl the sharpest impression she had yet
received of the uplifted, the unattainable plains of heaven, and
yet at the same time caused her to thrill with a sense of the high
company she did somehow keep. She was with the absent through her
ladyship and with her ladyship through the absent. The only pang--
but it didn't matter--was the proof in the admirable face, in the
sightless preoccupation of its possessor, that the latter hadn't a
notion of her. Her folly had gone to the point of half believing
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