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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: afternoon that I saw this demonstrated. A very plainly dressed woman
was taken ill on deck. I think I had the luck to be present at every
sudden seizure during all the passage; and on this occasion found
myself in the place of importance, supporting the sufferer. There
was not only a large crowd immediately around us, but a considerable
knot of saloon passengers leaning over our heads from the hurricane-
deck. One of these, an elderly managing woman, hailed me with
counsels. Of course I had to reply; and as the talk went on, I began
to discover that the whole group took me for the husband. I looked
upon my new wife, poor creature, with mingled feelings; and I must
own she had not even the appearance of the poorest class of city
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