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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: probably had them most. When she watched, a minute later, through
the cage, the swing of her visitor's departing petticoats, she saw
the sight from the waist down; and when the counter-clerk, after a
mere male glance, remarked, with an intention unmistakeably low,
"Handsome woman!" she had for him the finest of her chills: "She's
the widow of a bishop." She always felt, with the counter-clerk,
that it was impossible sufficiently to put it on; for what she
wished to express to him was the maximum of her contempt, and that
element in her nature was confusedly stored. "A bishop" was
putting it on, but the counter-clerk's approaches were vile. The
night, after this, when, in the fulness of time, Mrs. Jordan
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