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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: Marais probably had gone with him for the same reason that a bit of
iron follows a magnet, because he never could resist the attraction of
this evil man, his relative by birth. Or perhaps he had learned from
him the story of his daughter's danger, upon which I had already acted,
and really was anxious about her safety. For it must always be
remembered that Marais loved Marie passionately, however ill the reader
of this history may think that he behaved to her. She was his darling,
the apple of his eye, and her great offence in his sight was that she
cared for me more than she did for him. That is one of the reasons why
he hated me as much as he loved her.
Almost before I had finished reading this letter, the order came that we
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