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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: which was gleaming before him so divinely--not to widen the crevice,
not to open the door that would flood him with light.
Friendship and honor were at stake; they stood at his left hand,
as his new-born passion stood already at his right;
they claimed him as well, and their grasp had a pressure
which might become acutely painful. The soul is a still more
tender organism than the body, and it shrinks from the prospect
of being subjected to violence. Violence--spiritual violence--
was what our luxurious hero feared; and it is not too much to say
that as he lingered there by the sea, late into the night,
while the gurgitation of the waves grew deeper to his ear,
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