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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: afternoon tea? If the first, do let me recommend to Mrs. Barrie to
add an egg to her ordinary. Which, if you please, I will ask her
to eat to the honour of her son, and I am sure she will live much
longer for it, to enjoy his fresh successes. I never in my life
saw anything more deliciously characteristic. I declare I can hear
her speak. I wonder my mother could resist the temptation of your
proposed visit to Kirriemuir, which it was like your kindness to
propose. By the way, I was twice in Kirriemuir, I believe in the
year '71, when I was going on a visit to Glenogil. It was
Kirriemuir, was it not? I have a distinct recollection of an inn
at the end - I think the upper end - of an irregular open place or
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