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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: the problem of how far it was excusable to discuss the turpitude of
parents with a child of twelve, of thirteen, of fourteen.
Absolutely inexcusable and quite impossible it of course at first
appeared; and indeed the question didn't press for some time after
Pemberton had received his three hundred francs. They produced a
temporary lull, a relief from the sharpest pressure. The young man
frugally amended his wardrobe and even had a few francs in his
pocket. He thought the Moreens looked at him as if he were almost
too smart, as if they ought to take care not to spoil him. If Mr.
Moreen hadn't been such a man of the world he would perhaps have
spoken of the freedom of such neckties on the part of a
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