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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: 'This,' he said, 'would suit me very well. What, may I ask,
would be your terms a week, for this floor and the one above
it?'
'I was thinking,' returned Somerset, 'of a hundred pounds.'
'Surely not,' exclaimed the gentleman.
'Well, then,' returned Somerset, 'fifty.'
The gentleman regarded him with an air of some amazement.
'You seem to be strangely elastic in your demands,' said he.
'What if I were to proceed on your own principle of division,
and offer twenty-five?'
'Done!' cried Somerset; and then, overcome by a sudden
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