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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: reckless, passionate, inexperienced, ignorant girl.
And this passion was made all the stronger by being a good deal
confined to his own breast. Somehow it was very hard for him
to talk sentiment to Emilia; he instinctively saw she disliked
it, and indeed he liked her for not approving the stiff phrases
which were all he could command. Nor could he find any relief
of mind in talking with others about her. It enraged him to be
clapped on the back and congratulated by his compeers; and he
stopped their coarse jokes, often rudely enough. As for the
young men at the club, he could not bear to hear them mention
his darling's name, however courteously. He knew well enough
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