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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: till then; each, thus knowing the ideal of the other, tries to
fulfil that ideal, each partially succeeds. The greater the love,
the greater the success; the nobler the idea of each, the more
durable, the more beautiful the effect. Meanwhile the blindness of
each to the other's defects enables the transformation to proceed
[unobserved,] so that when the veil is withdrawn (if it ever is,
and this I do not know) neither knows that any change has occurred
in the person whom they loved. Do not fear, therefore. I do not
tell you that your friend will not change, but as I am sure that
her choice cannot be that of a man with a base ideal, so I am sure
the change will be a safe and a good one. Do not fear that
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