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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: To mark, for the house, the high state I cultivated I
decreed that my meals with the boy should be served,
as we called it, downstairs; so that I had been awaiting
him in the ponderous pomp of the room outside of the window
of which I had had from Mrs. Grose, that first scared Sunday,
my flash of something it would scarce have done to call light.
Here at present I felt afresh--for I had felt it again and again--
how my equilibrium depended on the success of my rigid will,
the will to shut my eyes as tight as possible to the truth
that what I had to deal with was, revoltingly, against nature.
I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my
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