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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: she exclaimed, leaving her son and taking the coachman apart a few
steps.
"I hope you're well, Madame Clapart," he replied, with an air that
expressed both respect and familiarity.
"Yes, Pierrotin, very well. Please take good care of my Oscar; he is
travelling alone for the first time."
"Oh! so he is going alone to Monsieur Moreau!" cried Pierrotin, for
the purpose of finding out whether he were really going there.
"Yes," said the mother.
"Then Madame Moreau is willing?" returned Pierrotin, with a sly look.
"Ah!" said the mother, "it will not be all roses for him, poor child!
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