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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: end of 1890, at least, it began to be rumoured that there was
dispeace between the two Malietoas; and doubtless this had an
unsettling influence throughout the islands. But there was another
ingredient of anxiety. The Berlin convention had long closed its
sittings; the text of the Act had been long in our hands;
commissioners were announced to right the wrongs of the land
question, and two high officials, a chief justice and a president,
to guide policy and administer law in Samoa. Their coming was
expected with an impatience, with a childishness of trust, that can
hardly be exaggerated. Months passed, these angel-deliverers still
delayed to arrive, and the impatience of the natives became changed
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