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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: and for the half hour, therefore, she would be charmante.
But she would never see him again. Finding no ready-made
opportunity to tell his story, Newman pondered these things
more dispassionately than might have been expected;
he stretched his legs, as usual, and even chuckled a little,
appreciatively and noiselessly. And then as the duchess went
on relating a mot with which her mother had snubbed the great
Napoleon, it occurred to Newman that her evasion of a chapter
of French history more interesting to himself might possibly
be the result of an extreme consideration for his feelings.
Perhaps it was delicacy on the duchess's part--not policy.
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