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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: "Good!" said the Baroness. "We are coming to the gentlemen.
What of the son of the house?"
"I am afraid he gets tipsy."
"He, then, has the epicurean temperament! How old is he?"
"He is a boy of twenty; a pretty young fellow, but I am afraid he has
vulgar tastes. And then there is Mr. Brand--a very tall young man,
a sort of lay-priest. They seem to think a good deal of him,
but I don't exactly make him out."
"And is there nothing," asked the Baroness, "between these extremes--
this mysterious ecclesiastic and that intemperate youth?"
"Oh, yes, there is Mr. Acton. I think," said the young man,
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