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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: doing, as she said, exactly as she liked with them. She spoke as
if, for that matter, she invited the company. "They simply give me
the table--all the rest, all the other effects, come afterwards."
CHAPTER VII
"Then you DO see them?" the girl again asked.
Mrs. Jordan hesitated, and indeed the point had been ambiguous
before. "Do you mean the guests?"
Her young friend, cautious about an undue exposure of innocence,
was not quite sure. "Well--the people who live there."
"Lady Ventnor? Mrs. Bubb? Lord Rye? Dear, yes. Why they LIKE
one."
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