Excerpt from: A Charmed Life
Richard Harding Davis


15 "But why punish me?" she protested. "Do I want the war? Do I want to free Cuba? No! I want YOU, and if you go, you are the one who is sure to be killed. You are so big--and so brave, and you will be rushing in wherever the fighting is, and then--then you will die." She raised her eyes and looked at him as though seeing him from a great distance. "And," she added fatefully, "I will die, too, or maybe I will have to live, to live without you for years, for many miserable years."
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The focus of paragraph 15 is












A) Cuba.


B) honor.


C) bravery.


D) selfishness