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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: Juan is not the child of your heart?"
"If that were so," she said, with dignity, "do you think it a
misfortune?"
"You have never loved me. If you had chosen, I would have conquered
worlds for your sake. You know all that I have struggled to do in
life, supported by the hope of pleasing you. Ah! if you had only loved
me!"
"A woman who loves," said Juana, "likes to live in solitude, far from
the world, and that is what we are doing."
"I know, Juana, that YOU are never in the wrong."
The words were said bitterly, and cast, for the rest of their lives
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