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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: I went out for dinner and came back almost immediately. I had a
fire lit in my room and I told Joseph he could go out.
I can give you no idea of the different impressions which
agitated me during the hour in which I waited; but when, toward
nine o'clock, I heard a ring, they thronged together into one
such emotion, that, as I opened the door, I was obliged to lean
against the wall to keep myself from falling.
Fortunately the anteroom was in half darkness, and the change in
my countenance was less visible. Marguerite entered.
She was dressed in black and veiled. I could scarcely recognise
her face through the veil. She went into the drawing-room and
Camille | 
