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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: poor pinched mother and tormented father and lost brother and
starved sister, together for a lifetime. During her first weeks
she had often gasped at the sums people were willing to pay for the
stuff they transmitted--the "much love"s, the "awful" regrets, the
compliments and wonderments and vain vague gestures that cost the
price of a new pair of boots. She had had a way then of glancing
at the people's faces, but she had early learnt that if you became
a telegraphist you soon ceased to be astonished. Her eye for types
amounted nevertheless to genius, and there were those she liked and
those she hated, her feeling for the latter of which grew to a
positive possession, an instinct of observation and detection.
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