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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: precisely with the appearance of the memorable lady.
CHAPTER III
She pushed in three bescribbled forms which the girl's hand was
quick to appropriate, Mr. Buckton having so frequent a perverse
instinct for catching first any eye that promised the sort of
entertainment with which she had her peculiar affinity. The
amusements of captives are full of a desperate contrivance, and one
of our young friend's ha'pennyworths had been the charming tale of
"Picciola." It was of course the law of the place that they were
never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but
this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own
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