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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: believe that she now saw him for the first time.
"Do you really mean it?" asked Maximilien in a broken voice.
Emilie turned her back upon him with amazing insolence. These words,
spoken in an undertone, had escaped the ears of her two sisters-in-
law. When, after buying the cape, the three ladies got into the
carriage again, Emilie, seated with her back to the horses, could not
resist one last comprehensive glance into the depths of the odious
shop, where she saw Maximilien standing with his arms folded, in the
attitude of a man superior to the disaster that has so suddenly fallen
on him. Their eyes met and flashed implacable looks. Each hoped to
inflict a cruel wound on the heart of a lover. In one instant they
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