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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: on the hand into which he had crumpled his gloves. "Yes," he
assented, "it's not a bit horrid or vulgar."
She just hung fire a moment, then she brought out the whole truth.
"I'd do anything for you. I'd do anything for you." Never in her
life had she known anything so high and fine as this, just letting
him have it and bravely and magnificently leaving it. Didn't the
place, the associations and circumstances, perfectly make it sound
what it wasn't? and wasn't that exactly the beauty?
So she bravely and magnificently left it, and little by little she
felt him take it up, take it down, as if they had been on a satin
sofa in a boudoir. She had never seen a boudoir, but there had
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