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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: she was fond of sitting, and Newman used frankly
to say that he preferred the balcony to the club.
It had a fringe of perfumed plants in tubs, and enabled you
to look up the broad street and see the Arch of Triumph vaguely
massing its heroic sculptures in the summer starlight.
Sometimes Newman kept his promise of following Mr. Tristram,
in half an hour, to the Occidental, and sometimes he forgot it.
His hostess asked him a great many questions about himself,
but on this subject he was an indifferent talker.
He was not what is called subjective, though when he felt that her
interest was sincere, he made an almost heroic attempt to be.
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