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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: liable to take a bite."
Sheldon shuddered inwardly at the swift vision that arose of the
dainty flesh of her in a shark's many-toothed maw.
"I wish you wouldn't, just the same," he said slowly. "You
acknowledge there is a risk."
"But that's half the fun of it," she cried.
A trite platitude about his not caring to lose her was on his lips,
but he refrained from uttering it. Another conclusion he had
arrived at was that she was not to be nagged. Continual, or even
occasional, reminders of his feeling for her would constitute a
tactical error of no mean dimensions.
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