|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: "it's not you! Of course it wasn't to have been."
"Ah but it WAS," he gently insisted. And he stared before him now
as he had been staring for so many weeks. "I was to have known
myself."
"You couldn't!" she returned consolingly. And then reverting, and
as if to account further for what she had herself done, "But it
wasn't only THAT, that you hadn't been at home," she went on. "I
waited till the hour at which we had found Mrs. Muldoon that day of
my going with you; and she arrived, as I've told you, while,
failing to bring any one to the door, I lingered in my despair on
the steps. After a little, if she hadn't come, by such a mercy, I
|
