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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: departure he was of course--she had such things all on her
fingers'-ends--dressing for dinner. We may let it pass that if she
couldn't bring herself to hover till he was dressed, this was
simply because such a process for such a person could only be
terribly prolonged. When she went in the middle of the day to her
own dinner she had too little time to do anything but go straight,
though it must be added that for a real certainty she would
joyously have omitted the repast. She had made up her mind as to
there being on the whole no decent pretext to justify her flitting
casually past at three o'clock in the morning. That was the hour
at which, if the ha'penny novels were not all wrong, he probably
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