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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: grand long talks."
There was something in our young lady that could still stay her
from asking for a personal description of these apparitions; that
showed too starved a state. But while she considered she took in
afresh the whole of the clergyman's widow. Mrs. Jordan couldn't
help her teeth, and her sleeves were a distinct rise in the world.
A thousand tulips at a shilling clearly took one further than a
thousand words at a penny; and the betrothed of Mr. Mudge, in whom
the sense of the race for life was always acute, found herself
wondering, with a twinge of her easy jealousy, if it mightn't after
all then, for HER also, be better--better than where she was--to
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