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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: what pain you give him. I wonder what I must do to keep you, or
simply to keep the right to be yours sometimes. . . . When I think
that you never would come here to me! . . . With what delicious
emotion I would wait upon you!--There are other women more favored
than I. There are women to whom you say, 'I love you.' To me you
have never said more than 'You are a good girl.' Certain speeches
of yours, though you do not know it, gnaw at my heart. Clever men
sometimes ask me what I am thinking. . . . I am thinking of my
self-abasement--the prostration of the poorest outcast in the
presence of the Saviour.
"There are still three more pages, you see. La Palferine allowed me to
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