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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: "They would have said I could never be happy with you--
you were too different; and I would have said it was just
BECAUSE you were so different that I might be happy.
But they would have given better reasons than I. My only reason"--
and she paused again.
But this time, in the midst of his golden sunrise, Newman felt the impulse
to grasp at a rosy cloud. "Your only reason is that you love me!"
he murmured with an eloquent gesture, and for want of a better reason
Madame de Cintre reconciled herself to this one.
Newman came back the next day, and in the vestibule,
as he entered the house, he encountered his friend Mrs. Bread.
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