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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: contradicted by the testimony of her appearance. Nature seemed to
have sanctified her for the single state; even the colour of her hair
was incompatible with matrimony, and her husband, I thought, should
be a man of saintly spirit and phantasmal bodily presence. She was
ill, poor thing; her soul turned from the viands; the dirty
tablecloth shocked her like an impropriety; and the whole strength of
her endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time
till she should reach New York. They had heard reports, her husband
and she, of some unwarrantable disparity of hours between these two
cities; and with a spirit commendably scientific, had seized on this
occasion to put them to the proof. It was a good thing for the old
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