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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: attachment which united my father and mother was perhaps
partly due to the strange manner of their meeting; it knew,
at least, no bounds either divine or human; my father, for
her sake, determined to renounce his ambitions and abjure his
faith; and a week had not yet passed upon the march before he
had resigned from his party, accepted the Mormon doctrine,
and received the promise of my mother's hand on the arrival
of the party at Salt Lake.
The marriage took place, and I was its only offspring. My
father prospered exceedingly in his affairs, remained
faithful to my mother; and though you may wonder to hear it,
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