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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: their silly guilty secrets in her pocket, her small retentive
brain, and thereby knowing so much more about them than they
suspected or would care to think. There were those she would have
liked to betray, to trip up, to bring down with words altered and
fatal; and all through a personal hostility provoked by the
lightest signs, by their accidents of tone and manner, by the
particular kind of relation she always happened instantly to feel.
There were impulses of various kinds, alternately soft and severe,
to which she was constitutionally accessible and which were
determined by the smallest accidents. She was rigid in general on
the article of making the public itself affix its stamps, and found
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