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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: she put in too little; and in either case this often came round to
her afterwards, for she had an extraordinary way of keeping clues.
When she noticed she noticed; that was what it came to. There were
days and days, there were weeks sometimes, of vacancy. This arose
often from Mr. Buckton's devilish and successful subterfuges for
keeping her at the sounder whenever it looked as if anything might
arouse; the sounder, which it was equally his business to mind,
being the innermost cell of captivity, a cage within the cage,
fenced oft from the rest by a frame of ground glass. The counter-
clerk would have played into her hands; but the counter-clerk was
really reduced to idiocy by the effect of his passion for her. She
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