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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: Lessons with me, indeed, that charming summer, we all had
a theory that he was to have; but I now feel that, for weeks,
the lessons must have been rather my own. I learned something--
at first, certainly--that had not been one of the teachings of
my small, smothered life; learned to be amused, and even amusing,
and not to think for the morrow. It was the first time,
in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom,
all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature.
And then there was consideration--and consideration was sweet.
Oh, it was a trap--not designed, but deep--to my imagination,
to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever, in me,
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