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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: "Handsome woman!" she had for him the finest of her chills: "She's
the widow of a bishop." She always felt, with the counter-clerk,
that it was impossible sufficiently to put it on; for what she
wished to express to him was the maximum of her contempt, and that
element in her nature was confusedly stored. "A bishop" was
putting it on, but the counter-clerk's approaches were vile. The
night, after this, when, in the fulness of time, Mrs. Jordan
mentioned the grand long talks, the girl at last brought out:
"Should I see them?--I mean if I WERE to give up everything for
you."
Mrs. Jordan at this became most arch. "I'd send you to all the
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