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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: not herself take part in the dinner; since her arrival at Montegnac
she had made it a rule to take her meals alone, and Aline, who knew
the reason of this withdrawal, faithfully kept the secret of it till
her mistress was in danger of death.
The mayor, the /juge de paix/, and the doctor of Montegnac had been
invited.
The doctor, a young man twenty-seven years of age, named Roubaud, was
extremely desirous of knowing a woman so celebrated in Limoges. The
rector was all the more pleased to present him at the chateau because
he wanted to gather a little society around Veronique to distract her
mind and give it food. Roubaud was one of those thoroughly well-
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