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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: they were disjoined - the whole episode and the figures peopling it
would seem too inconsequent for anything but dreamland. Their
supreme quaintness was their success - as it appeared to him for a
while at the time; since he had never seen a family so brilliantly
equipped for failure. Wasn't it success to have kept him so
hatefully long? Wasn't it success to have drawn him in that first
morning at dejeuner, the Friday he came - it was enough to MAKE one
superstitious - so that he utterly committed himself, and this not
by calculation or on a signal, but from a happy instinct which made
them, like a band of gipsies, work so neatly together? They amused
him as much as if they had really been a band of gipsies. He was
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