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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: a cab, and then she changed her mind and ordered it again for the
theatre this evening.'
" 'Good,' exclaimed du Bruel, 'what did I tell you?'
"We entered the house stealthily. No one was there. We went from room
to room until we reached a little boudoir, and came upon Tullia in
tears. She dried her eyes without affectation, and spoke to du Bruel.
" 'Send a note to the /Rocher de Cancale/,' she said, 'and ask your
guests to dine here.'
"She was dressed as only women of the theatre can dress, in a simply-
made gown of some dainty material, neither too costly nor too common,
graceful and harmonious in outline and coloring; there was nothing
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