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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: he had great ideas--with all the mastery of detail that was some
day, professionally, to carry him afar.
The longer the time since she had seen Captain Everard the more she
was booked, as she called it, to pass Park Chambers; and this was
the sole amusement that in the lingering August days and the
twilights sadly drawn out it was left her to cultivate. She had
long since learned to know it for a feeble one, though its
feebleness was perhaps scarce the reason for her saying to herself
each evening as her time for departure approached: "No, no--not
to-night." She never failed of that silent remark, any more than
she failed of feeling, in some deeper place than she had even yet
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