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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: where she borrowed novels, very greasy, in fine print and all about
fine folks, at a ha'penny a day. This sacred pause was one of the
numerous ways in which the establishment kept its finger on the
pulse of fashion and fell into the rhythm of the larger life. It
had something to do, one day, with the particular flare of
importance of an arriving customer, a lady whose meals were
apparently irregular, yet whom she was destined, she afterwards
found, not to forget. The girl was blasee; nothing could belong
more, as she perfectly knew, to the intense publicity of her
profession; but she had a whimsical mind and wonderful nerves; she
was subject, in short, to sudden flickers of antipathy and
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