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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: He wondered. "It's something then we never feared?"
On this slowly she turned to him. "Did we ever dream, with all our
dreams, that we should sit and talk of it thus?"
He tried for a little to make out that they had; but it was as if
their dreams, numberless enough, were in solution in some thick
cold mist through which thought lost itself. "It might have been
that we couldn't talk."
"Well"--she did her best for him--"not from this side. This, you
see," she said, "is the OTHER side."
"I think," poor Marcher returned, "that all sides are the same to
me." Then, however, as she gently shook her head in correction:
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