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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: my heart to blame myself for that great failure. It seemed not
possible to have resisted the boldness of her innocence or that last
temptation of her weeping. And all that I had to excuse me did but
make my sin appear the greater - it was upon a nature so defenceless,
and with such advantages of the position, that I seemed to have
practised.
What was to become of us now? It seemed we could no longer dwell in
the one place. But where was I to go? or where she? Without either
choice or fault of ours, life had conspired to wall us together in that
narrow place. I had a wild thought of marrying out of hand; and the
next moment put it from me with revolt. She was a child, she could not
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