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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: mercy that it doesn't in the least matter what I give you now.
You've become a comfort, I assure you!"
She had only two torments; the greatest of which was that she
couldn't, not even once or twice, touch with him on some individual
fact. She would have given anything to have been able to allude to
one of his friends by name, to one of his engagements by date, to
one of his difficulties by the solution. She would have given
almost as much for just the right chance--it would have to be
tremendously right--to show him in some sharp sweet way that she
had perfectly penetrated the greatest of these last and now lived
with it in a kind of heroism of sympathy. He was in love with a
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