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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: presence--as I saw her then.
I scanned her very carefully; and secretly, if the truth be told,
I was glad to find that Madame de Cocheforet was such a woman. I
was glad that she had laughed as she had--with a ring of disdain
and defiance; glad that she was not a little, tender, child-like
woman, to be crushed by the first pinch of trouble. For if I
succeeded in my task, if I contrived to--but, pish! Women, I
told myself, were all alike. She would find consolation quickly
enough.
I watched until the group broke up, and Madame, with one of the
men, went her way round the corner of the inn, and out of my
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