Read the following excerpt and answer the question. edward: "perhaps, then, you would bestow it as a reward on that person who wrote the ablest defence of your favourite maxim, that no one can ever be in love more than once in their life—your opinion on that point is unchanged, i presume? " marianne: "undoubtedly. at my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. it is not likely that i should now see or hear any thing to change them." the subject edward and marianne are discussing is