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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: CHAPTER XV
She never knew afterwards quite what she had done to settle it, and
at the time she only knew that they presently moved, with
vagueness, yet with continuity, away from the picture of the
lighted vestibule and the quiet stairs and well up the street
together. This also must have been in the absence of a definite
permission, of anything vulgarly articulate, for that matter, on
the part of either; and it was to be, later on, a thing of
remembrance and reflexion for her that the limit of what just here
for a longish minute passed between them was his taking in her
thoroughly successful deprecation, though conveyed without pride or
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