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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: of defects."
"What defects, for instance?"
"Oh, I have n't remembered them. She said she had a bad temper--
that she led her mother a dreadful life. Now, poor Mrs. Vivian says
she is an angel."
"Ah yes," Bernard observed; "Mrs. Vivian says that, very freely."
"Angela declared that she was jealous, ungenerous, unforgiving--
all sorts of things. I remember she said 'I am very false,'
and I think she remarked that she was cruel."
"But this did n't put you off," said Bernard.
"Not at all. She was making up."
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