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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: Then he came back to reality, and his face hardened. Even then she
was on the wild coast of Malaita, and at Poonga-Poonga, of all
villainous and dangerous portions the worst, peopled with a teeming
population of head-hunters, robbers, and murderers. For the
instant he entertained the rash thought of calling his boat's-crew
and starting immediately in a whale-boat for Poonga-Poonga. But
the next instant the idea was dismissed. What could he do if he
did go? First, she would resent it. Next, she would laugh at him
and call him a silly; and after all he would count for only one
rifle more, and she had many rifles with her. Three things only
could he do if he went. He could command her to return; he could
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