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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Charlotte asked, with infinite mildness.
"It is not only Mr. Brand," Mr. Wentworth solemnly declared.
And he looked at his knee for a long time. "It is difficult
to explain," he said. He wished, evidently, to be very just.
"It rests on moral grounds, as Mr. Brand says.
It is the question whether it is the best thing for Gertrude."
"What is better--what is better, dear uncle?" Felix rejoined urgently,
rising in his urgency and standing before Mr. Wentworth.
His uncle had been looking at his knee; but when Felix moved
he transferred his gaze to the handle of the door which faced him.
"It is usually a fairly good thing for a girl to marry the man
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