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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: and regular occupations. She wasn't, the mourning niece, in her
first youth, and her vanished freshness had left something behind
that, for Stransom, represented the proof it had been tragically
sacrificed. Whatever she gave him the assurance of she gave
without references. She might have been a divorced duchess - she
might have been an old maid who taught the harp.
CHAPTER V.
THEY fell at last into the way of walking together almost every
time they met, though for a long time still they never met but at
church. He couldn't ask her to come and see him, and as if she
hadn't a proper place to receive him she never invited her friend.
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