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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: characterized her manner before Clifford made his appearance.
It seemed to Acton that there was a spark of irritation in her eye--
a note of irony (as when she spoke of Lizzie being never away
from her mother) in her voice. If Madame Munster was irritated,
Robert Acton was vaguely mystified; she began to move about
the room again, and he looked at her without saying anything.
Presently she took out her watch, and, glancing at it,
declared that it was three o'clock in the morning and that
he must go.
"I have not been here an hour," he said, "and they are still
sitting up at the other house. You can see the lights.
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