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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: questions that she patiently and perfectly answered. All patience
was possible now, all questions were stupid after his, all faces
were ugly. She had been sure she should see the lady again; and
even now she should perhaps, she should probably, see her often.
But for him it was totally different; she should never never see
him. She wanted it too much. There was a kind of wanting that
helped--she had arrived, with her rich experience, at that
generalisation; and there was another kind that was fatal. It was
this time the fatal kind; it would prevent.
Well, she saw him the very next day, and on this second occasion it
was quite different; the sense of every syllable he paid for was
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