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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: - from the restless motion that had come upon him; his fine smile a
generous glare. "There's a subject, my boy: no end of stuff in
it!"
Again Paul was silent, but it was all tormenting. "Are there no
women who really understand - who can take part in a sacrifice?"
"How can they take part? They themselves are the sacrifice.
They're the idol and the altar and the flame."
"Isn't there even ONE who sees further?" Paul continued.
For a moment St. George made no answer; after which, having torn up
his letters, he came back to the point all ironic. "Of course I
know the one you mean. But not even Miss Fancourt."
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