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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: conception of the beauty of not at least boring him. To whine, to
count up her wrongs, was what a barmaid or a shop-girl would do,
and it was quite enough to sit there like one of these.
"If you had had another employment," he remarked after a moment,
"we might never have become acquainted."
"It's highly probable--and certainly not in the same way." Then,
still with her heap of gold in her lap and something of the pride
of it in her manner of holding her head, she continued not to move-
-she only smiled at him. The evening had thickened now; the
scattered lamps were red; the Park, all before them, was full of
obscure and ambiguous life; there were other couples on other
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