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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: yearning. She after all told him nothing but that his light had
failed--which he knew well enough without her. "Before--?" he
blankly echoed.
"Before you see, it was always to COME. That kept it present."
"Oh I don't care what comes now! Besides," Marcher added, "it
seems to me I liked it better present, as you say, than I can like
it absent with YOUR absence."
"Oh mine!"--and her pale hands made light of it.
"With the absence of everything." He had a dreadful sense of
standing there before her for--so far as anything but this proved,
this bottomless drop was concerned--the last time of their life.
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