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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: night when you were passing my house; and it is idle to deny
that the conduct of so delicate a process, among the million
jars and trepidations of so great a city, presents a certain
element of danger. From this point of view, I cannot but
regret the perfect stillness of my house among the deserts;
but, on the other hand, I have succeeded in proving that the
singularly unstable equilibrium of the elixir, at the moment
of projection, is due rather to the impurity than to the
nature of the ingredients; and as all are now of an equal and
exquisite nicety, I have little fear for the result. In a
week then from to-day, my dear Asenath, this period of trial
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