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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: unexpectedly, returning from the window. "We don't mind what
anything costs - we live awfully well."
"My darling, you're too quaint!" his mother exclaimed, putting out
to caress him a practised but ineffectual hand. He slipped out of
it, but looked with intelligent innocent eyes at Pemberton, who had
already had time to notice that from one moment to the other his
small satiric face seemed to change its time of life. At this
moment it was infantine, yet it appeared also to be under the
influence of curious intuitions and knowledges. Pemberton rather
disliked precocity and was disappointed to find gleams of it in a
disciple not yet in his teens. Nevertheless he divined on the spot
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