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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: bear of his confidence. He had set up a laboratory in the
back part of the house, where he toiled day and night at his
elixir, and he would come thence to visit me in my parlour:
now with passing humours of discouragement; now, and far more
often, radiant with hope. It was impossible to see so much
of him, and not to recognise that the sands of his life were
running low; and yet all the time he would be laying out vast
fields of future, and planning, with all the confidence of
youth, the most unbounded schemes of pleasure and ambition.
How I replied I know not; but I found a voice and words to
answer, even while I wept and raged to hear him.
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