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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: to the safe proposition that the outside element was "changeable."
Anything seemed true that made him so radiantly assent.
This indeed is a small specimen of her cultivation of insidious
ways of making things easy for him--ways to which of course she
couldn't be at all sure he did real justice. Real justice was not
of this world: she had had too often to come back to that; yet,
strangely, happiness was, and her traps had to be set for it in a
manner to keep them unperceived by Mr. Buckton and the counter-
clerk. The most she could hope for apart from the question, which
constantly flickered up and died down, of the divine chance of his
consciously liking her, would be that, without analysing it, he
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