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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: for me a sincere but silent passion; and although the poor
lad was too timid to hint at the nature of his feelings, I
had soon divined and begun to share them. For some days I
pondered on the odd situation created for me by the
bashfulness of my admirer; and at length, perceiving that he
began, in his distress, rather to avoid than seek my company,
I determined to take the matter into my own hands. Finding
him alone in a retired part of the rectory garden, I told him
that I had divined his amiable secret, that I knew with what
disfavour our union was sure to be regarded; and that, under
the circumstances, I was prepared to flee with him at once.
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