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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: Newman made no distinct affirmation that he would come back to Paris;
he even talked about Rome and the Nile, and abstained from professing
any especial interest in Madame de Cintre's continued widowhood.
This circumstance was at variance with his habitual frankness,
and may perhaps be regarded as characteristic of the incipient stage
of that passion which is more particularly known as the mysterious one.
The truth is that the expression of a pair of eyes that were at
once brilliant and mild had become very familiar to his memory,
and he would not easily have resigned himself to the prospect
of never looking into them again. He communicated to Mrs. Tristram
a number of other facts, of greater or less importance, as you choose;
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