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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: their troubles and then, in the glimmering dawn, finally sighted
each other again) for each to admit that the other was, in her
private circle, her only equal, but the admission came, when it did
come, with an honest groan; and since equality was named, each
found much personal profit in exaggerating the other's original
grandeur. Mrs. Jordan was ten years the older, but her young
friend was struck with the smaller difference this now made: it
had counted otherwise at the time when, much more as a friend of
her mother's, the bereaved lady, without a penny of provision and
with stopgaps, like their own, all gone, had, across the sordid
landing on which the opposite doors of the pair of scared miseries
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