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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: word that, whatever may have occurred, there were excuses--
great excuses--I may say, very great?"
"It would have weight with me, doctor," I replied.
"I may go further," he pursued. "Suppose I had been there, or
you had been there: after a certain event had taken place, it's a
grave question what we might have done--it's even a question
what we could have done--ourselves. Or take me. I will be
plain with you, and own that I am in possession of the facts.
You have a shrewd guess how I have acted in that knowledge.
May I ask you to judge from the character of my action,
something of the nature of that knowledge, which I have no
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