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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: great kind--and it was of course only a question of those, real
homes of luxury--in which she was not, at the rate such people now
had things, all over the place. The girl felt before the picture
the cold breath of disinheritance as much as she had ever felt it
in the cage; she knew moreover how much she betrayed this, for the
experience of poverty had begun, in her life, too early, and her
ignorance of the requirements of homes of luxury had grown, with
other active knowledge, a depth of simplification. She had
accordingly at first often found that in these colloquies she could
only pretend she understood. Educated as she had rapidly been by
her chances at Cocker's, there were still strange gaps in her
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