The count of Monte Cristo

I am going to tell you about what I read today. Edmond, pretending to be "The Count of Monte Cristo" attends a ball organized by Albert de Morcerf who is the son of the Mercédès, Edmond's previous fiancée before his stay in jail. The two really loved each other, but since they were separated, she married another man and had a son. There, The Count of Monte Cristo is the center of attention and what puzzles many of the guests and most importantly, Mercédès, is that he refuses to eat anything that he has been offered. They wonder if it is because he dislikes the food and try to propose other dishes to him but yet he doesn't have anything. He mentions an Arabic tradition that if you eat under somebody else's roof, that makes you eternal friends. That obviously hints to the author the real reason behind, but the woman doesn't understand. She asks him nervously if they are friends and he says they are. 

This is an interesting moment in the book, because it makes us see what the relationship and the attitude of Mercédès is towards the Count of Monte Cristo, who she cannot recognise as her past beloved man and the man she was very close to getting married to. We can see the attraction between the two, despite the fact that with his new identity he seems to be cold to everybody else. She is married and has children, but there is a very strong connection between the two. That shows us the power of their love and that their paths crossed again and even though the man completely changed the way he looks and in a way how he acts as well, they ended up meeting again and feeling the same attraction they felt before.