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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: than these preliminary thoughts, when a slight rustling in the leaves
announced to her than Maximilien had been watching her for a minute,
not probably without admiration.
"Do you know that it is very wrong to take a young girl thus
unawares?" she asked him, smiling.
"Especially when they are busy with their secrets," replied Maximilien
archly.
"Why should I not have my secrets? You certainly have yours."
"Then you really were thinking of your secrets?" he went on, laughing.
"No, I was thinking of yours. My own, I know."
"But perhaps my secrets are yours, and yours mine," cried the young
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