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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: this makes him very uneasy when he unfolds it to me. Good-bye!
XXXVI
THE VICOMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO THE BARONNE DE MACUMER
Dear,--no words can express the astonishment of all our party when, at
luncheon, we were told that you had both gone, and, above all, when
the postilion who took you to Marseilles handed me your mad letter.
Why, naughty child, it was of your happiness, and nothing else, that
made the theme of those talks below the rock, on the "Louise" seat,
and you had not the faintest justification for objecting to them.
/Ingrata!/ My sentence on you is that you return here at my first
summons. In that horrid letter, scribbled on the inn paper, you did
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