By the time I have reached page 186 in the book, I can already tell, this book is about to get crazy. So far, Emma is having this very steamy affair with Rodolphe and she loves him more than her own husband. And she for awhile has been almost begging Rodolphe to run away with her so the two of them can be together and show their love for one another to the world with no worries of anyone finding out.
Meanwhile Charles is having a really bad experience within his career. He attempted to repair Hippolyte's club foot by cutting into the muscle. Which then backfired to where Hippolyte's wound got infected and Charles had to call in a separate doctor to assess the situation, and now Charles is getting sued. So his life is in a lot of trouble right now. While Emma's is about to go really terrible.
The day before Rodolphe and Emma were supposed to run away together he has this thought, "After a few moments Rodolphe stopped; and when he saw her with her white gown gradually fade away in the shade like a ghost, he was seized with such a beating of the heart that he leant against a tree lest he should fall. 'What an imbecile I am!' he said with a fearful oath. 'No matter! She was a pretty mistress!' And immediately Emma's beauty, with all the pleasures of their love, came back to him. For a moment he softened; then he rebelled against her. 'For after all,' he exclaimed, gesticulating, 'I can't exile myself-have a child on my hands.' He was saying these things to give himself firmness. 'And besides, the worry, the expense! Ah! no, no, no! a thousand times no! It would have been too stupid,'" (Flaubert 185).
When I read this I gasped. Because this was the complete opposite to what was going on between Emma and Rodolphe earlier that night! "'Ah! I understand. I have nothing in the world! You are all to me; so shall I be to you. I will be your people, your country; I will tend, I will love you!' 'How sweet you are!' he said, seizing her in his arms. 'Really!' she said with a voluptuous laugh. 'Do you love me? Swear it then!' 'Do I love you-love you? I adore you, my love!'" (Flaubert 183).
So after reading this, I had a prediction as to what was going to happen after this. She will spend the next day happy as anything packing for her get away with Rodolphe and then the day will come for the two of them running away, but Rodolphe won't show up after what I read on page 185. And for a while she will go back to her times of depression where she feels like she lives for nothing, and will continue to be cold to Charles like she was on page 172 when, "'Oh kiss me, my own!' 'Leave me!' she said, red with anger. 'What is the matter?' he asked stupefied." So she will continue to resent Charles and blame him for Rodolphe not coming in the morning because the risk is too big, so then she'll decide to go back to Leon, who was her first love during her marriage. Maybe she'll go on a day trip to Paris to see him, but not come back.
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