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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: She once more took my hand in both her own, holding it
as tight as if to fortify me against the increase of alarm I
might draw from this disclosure. "They were both infamous,"
she finally said.
So, for a little, we faced it once more together; and I found absolutely
a degree of help in seeing it now so straight. "I appreciate,"
I said, "the great decency of your not having hitherto spoken;
but the time has certainly come to give me the whole thing."
She appeared to assent to this, but still only in silence;
seeing which I went on: "I must have it now. Of what did she die?
Come, there was something between them."
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