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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: they stood a moment looking off at the great flat-topped
pine clusters of the Villa Borghese; then Giovanelli
seated himself, familiarly, upon the broad ledge of the wall.
The western sun in the opposite sky sent out a brilliant
shaft through a couple of cloud bars, whereupon Daisy's
companion took her parasol out of her hands and opened it.
She came a little nearer, and he held the parasol over her;
then, still holding it, he let it rest upon her shoulder,
so that both of their heads were hidden from Winterbourne.
This young man lingered a moment, then he began to walk.
But he walked--not toward the couple with the parasol;
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