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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: immunities of her husband. Curfew in Butaritari sounds for her in
vain. Long after the bell is rung and the great island ladies are
confined for the night to their own roof, this chartered libertine
may scamper and giggle through the deserted streets or go down to
bathe in the dark. The resources of the store are at her hand; she
goes arrayed like a queen, and feasts delicately everyday upon
tinned meats. And she who was perhaps of no regard or station
among natives sits with captains, and is entertained on board of
schooners. Five of these privileged dames were some time our
neighbours. Four were handsome skittish lasses, gamesome like
children, and like children liable to fits of pouting. They wore
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