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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: now stood before me like a person shamed.
"Miss Drummond," I said, and stuck, and made the same beginning once
again, "I wish you could see into my heart," I cried. "You would read
there that my respect is undiminished. If that were possible, I should
say it was increased. This is but the result of the mistake we made;
and had to come; and the less said of it now the better. Of all of our
life here, I promise you it shall never pass my lips; I would like to
promise you too that I would never think of it, but it's a memory that
will be always dear to me. And as for a friend, you have one here that
would die for you."
"I am thanking you," said she.
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