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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: there was anything like a scandal, though he felt certain that if
he told them the whole facts of the case they would be the very
first to appreciate the motives that had actuated him. He had
every reason, then, to decide in favour of poison. It was safe,
sure, and quiet, and did away with any necessity for painful
scenes, to which, like most Englishmen, he had a rooted objection.
Of the science of poisons, however, he knew absolutely nothing, and
as the waiter seemed quite unable to find anything in the library
but RUFF'S GUIDE and BAILEY'S MAGAZINE, he examined the book-
shelves himself, and finally came across a handsomely-bound edition
of the PHARMACOPOEIA, and a copy of Erskine's TOXICOLOGY, edited by
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