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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: have this consciousness was to THINK - and to think, Brydon knew,
as he stood there, was, with the lapsing moments, not to have
acted! Not to have acted - that was the misery and the pang - was
even still not to act; was in fact ALL to feel the thing in
another, in a new and terrible way. How long did he pause and how
long did he debate? There was presently nothing to measure it; for
his vibration had already changed - as just by the effect of its
intensity. Shut up there, at bay, defiant, and with the prodigy of
the thing palpably proveably DONE, thus giving notice like some
stark signboard - under that accession of accent the situation
itself had turned; and Brydon at last remarkably made up his mind
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