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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: seemed a good few days must pass before her mails could come to hand in
Leyden, and it was plainly needful she must have a shift of things.
She was unwilling at first that I should go to that expense; but I
reminded her she was now a rich man's sister and must appear suitably
in the part, and we had not got to the second merchant's before she was
entirely charmed into the spirit of the thing, and her eyes shining.
It pleased me to see her so innocent and thorough in this pleasure.
What was more extraordinary was the passion into which I fell on it
myself; being never satisfied that I had bought her enough or fine
enough, and never weary of beholding her in different attires. Indeed,
I began to understand some little of Miss Grant's immersion in the
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