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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: arrangements for being "met"; she found them for the most part
prosaic and coarse. The only thing was that they brought into her
stuffy corner as straight a whiff of Alpine meadows and Scotch
moors as she might hope ever to inhale; there were moreover in
especial fat hot dull ladies who had out with her, to exasperation,
the terms for seaside lodgings, which struck her as huge, and the
matter of the number of beds required, which was not less
portentous: this in reference to places of which the names--
Eastbourne, Folkestone, Cromer, Scarborough, Whitby--tormented her
with something of the sound of the plash of water that haunts the
traveller in the desert. She had not been out of London for a
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