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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: group of smokers, and St. George went on: "Have you got one
yourself?"
"Do you mean a cigarette?"
"Dear no - a wife."
"No; and yet I'd give up my cigarette for one."
"You'd give up a good deal more than that," St. George returned.
"However, you'd get a great deal in return. There's a something to
be said for wives," he added, folding his arms and crossing his
outstretched legs. He declined tobacco altogether and sat there
without returning fire. His companion stopped smoking, touched by
his courtesy; and after all they were out of the fumes, their sofa
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