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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: her a bad girl.
"Oh, no," he said at last; "it would be very bad manners in me
to judge you that way. I don't know you."
"But my father has complained to you," said Mademoiselle Noemie.
"He says you are a coquette."
"He shouldn't go about saying such things to gentlemen!
But you don't believe it."
"No," said Newman gravely, "I don't believe it."
She looked at him again, gave a shrug and a smile, and then
pointed to a small Italian picture, a Marriage of St. Catherine.
"How should you like that?" she asked.
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