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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: fear of vulgar interruption. On this stone the Covenant was
signed. In that vault, as the story goes, John Knox took
hiding in some Reformation broil. From that window Burke the
murderer looked out many a time across the tombs, and perhaps
o' nights let himself down over the sill to rob some new-made
grave. Certainly he would have a selection here. The very
walks have been carried over forgotten resting-places; and
the whole ground is uneven, because (as I was once quaintly
told) 'when the wood rots it stands to reason the soil should
fall in,' which, from the law of gravitation, is certainly
beyond denial. But it is round the boundary that there are
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