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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: I remember perfectly the way we were sitting that evening
at Baden, and the way you looked at me when you came up.
I saw you before Gordon--I see a good many things before Gordon.
What did you look at me that way for? I always meant to ask you.
I was dying to know."
"For the simplest reason in the world," said Bernard.
"Because you were so pretty."
"Ah no, it was n't that! I know all about that look.
It was something else--as if you knew something about me.
I don't know what you can have known. There was very little
to know about me, except that I was intensely silly. Really, I was
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