16. What important question does Margeurite ask her husband after the ball?

Marguerite asks her husband the most important question of all....

"Is it possible that love can die?" she said with sudden, unreasoning vehemence. "Methought that the passion which you once felt for me would outlast the span of human life. Is there nothing left of that love, Percy . . . which might help you . . . to bridge over that sad estrangement?"