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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: Madame de Cintre did not take up her sister's challenge to be gracious,
but she looked with a certain troubled air at the retreating guest.
CHAPTER VII
One evening very late, about a week after his visit
to Madame de Cintre, Newman's servant brought him a card.
It was that of young M. de Bellegarde. When, a few moments later,
he went to receive his visitor, he found him standing in the middle
of his great gilded parlor and eying it from cornice to carpet.
M. de Bellegarde's face, it seemed to Newman, expressed a sense
of lively entertainment. "What the devil is he laughing at now?"
our hero asked himself. But he put the question without acrimony,
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