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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: men had now reached their hotel.
"Ah, my dear Gordon," said Bernard, "we speak a different language.
If you don't want to be fascinated, what is one to say to you?
'Object to being fascinated!' There 's a man easy to satisfy!
Raffine, va!"
"Well, see here now," said Gordon, stopping in the door-way of the inn;
"when it comes to the point, do you like it yourself?"
"When it comes to the point?" Bernard exclaimed. "I assure you I don't
wait till then. I like the beginning--I delight in the approach of it--
I revel in the prospect."
"That's just what I did. But now that the thing has come--I don't revel.
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