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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: a sort of tacit agreement among them--simply to make a circle
and admire. They sat about and looked at her--yawning, perhaps,
a little at times, but on the whole very well entertained,
and often exchanging a smiling commentary with each other.
She looked at them, smiled at them each, in succession.
Every one had his turn, and this always helped to give Blanche
an audience. Incoherent and aimless as much of her talk was,
she never looked prettier than in the attitude of improvisation--
or rather, I should say, than in the hundred attitudes which
she assumed at such a time. Perpetually moving, she was yet
constantly graceful, and while she twisted her body and turned
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