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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the boats did not reach it till half-past ten.
It being now the period of neap-tides, the water only
partially left the rock, and some of the men who were boring
on the lower ledges of the site of the beacon stood knee-deep
in water. The situation of the smith to-day was particularly
disagreeable, but his services were at all times
indispensable. As the tide did not leave the site of the
forge, he stood in the water, and as there was some roughness
on the surface it was with considerable difficulty that, with
the assistance of the sailors, he was enabled to preserve
alive his fire; and, while his feet were immersed in water,
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