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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: arrived at a glimmering of the answer when she announced that she
must leave him, though this perception was of course provisional.
While he was in the very act of placing himself at her disposal for
the return the situation underwent a change; Lord Masham had
suddenly turned up, coming back to them, overtaking them, emerging
from the shrubbery - Overt could scarcely have said how he appeared
- and Mrs. St. George had protested that she wanted to be left
alone and not to break up the party. A moment later she was
walking off with Lord Masham. Our friend fell back and joined Lady
Watermouth, to whom he presently mentioned that Mrs. St. George had
been obliged to renounce the attempt to go further.
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