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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: transferred to the back drawing-room the bed in which the
tenant was to sleep; and it was not until the bustle of
arrival had subsided, and the arrangements were complete,
that there descended, from the third of the three vehicles, a
gentleman of great stature and broad shoulders, leaning on
the shoulder of a woman in a widow's dress, and himself
covered by a long cloak and muffled in a coloured comforter.
Somerset had but a glimpse of him in passing; he was soon
shut into the back drawing-room; the other men departed;
silence redescended on the house; and had not the nurse
appeared a little before half-past ten, and, with a strong
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