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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: for it was almost a strict consequence--she used to enumerate
to the young man these objects of her admiration.
"You seem to be awfully fond of those sort of people," said Lord
Lambeth one day, as if the idea had just occurred to him.
"They are the people in England I am most curious to see,"
Bessie Alden replied.
"I suppose that's because you have read so much," said Lord Lambeth gallantly.
"I have not read so much. It is because we think so much of them at home."
"Oh, I see," observed the young nobleman. "In Boston."
"Not only in Boston; everywhere," said Bessie. "We hold them in great honor;
they go to the best dinner parties."
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