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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: She had still looked straight in front of her, head in air; but at my
words or the tone of my voice she came to a stop. "What is this you
say?" she asked. "What are you talking of?"
"It is my testimony which may save an innocent life," said I, "and they
will not suffer me to bear it. What would you do yourself? You know
what this is, whose father lies in danger. Would you desert the poor
soul? They have tried all ways with me. They have sought to bribe me;
they offered me hills and valleys. And to-day that sleuth-hound told
me how I stood, and to what a length he would go to butcher and
disgrace me. I am to be brought in a party to the murder; I am to have
held Glenure in talk for money and old clothes; I am to be killed and
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