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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: first time to knock at the fair Cuban's door. She bade him
enter, and he found her kneeling with rather a disconsolate
air beside a brown wooden trunk.
'Senorita,' he broke out, 'I doubt whether that man's
character is what he wishes you to believe. His manner, when
he found, and indeed when I admitted that I was following
him, was not the manner of an honest man.'
'Oh!' she cried, throwing up her hands as in desperation,
'Don Quixote, Don Quixote, have you again been tilting
against windmills?' And then, with a laugh, 'Poor soul!' she
added, 'how you must have terrified him! For know that the
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