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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: He was paralyzed and bewildered by her foreignness.
She spoke, somehow, a different language. There was something
strange in her words. He had a feeling that another man,
in his place, would accommodate himself to her tone; would ask
her questions and joke with her, reply to those pleasantries of her
own which sometimes seemed startling as addressed to an uncle.
But Mr. Wentworth could not do these things. He could not even
bring himself to attempt to measure her position in the world.
She was the wife of a foreign nobleman who desired to
repudiate her. This had a singular sound, but the old man
felt himself destitute of the materials for a judgment.
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