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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: your morality. Those young ladies have told their mothers that Luigi
was shut up here, and that you lent yourself--to--our love."
"There is some truth in that, mademoiselle," replied the professor.
"The mothers of those young ladies are foolish women; if they had come
straight to me I should have explained the matter. But I don't care a
straw about it! Life is short, anyhow."
And the painter snapped his fingers above his head. Luigi, who had
heard part of the conversation, came in.
"You have lost all your scholars," he cried. "I have ruined you!"
The artist took Luigi's hand and that of Ginevra, and joined them.
"Marry one another, my children," he said, with fatherly kindness.
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