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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship.
Well, I was, strangely, at the helm!
II
This came home to me when, two days later, I drove over
with Flora to meet, as Mrs. Grose said, the little gentleman;
and all the more for an incident that, presenting itself
the second evening, had deeply disconcerted me.
The first day had been, on the whole, as I have expressed,
reassuring; but I was to see it wind up in keen apprehension.
The postbag, that evening--it came late--contained a letter
for me, which, however, in the hand of my employer,
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