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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: purpose of inviting Captain Dalgetty to accept of the hospitality
of Ardenvohr, pledging his honour, at the same time, that
Gustavus should be treated as became the hero from whom he
derived his name, not to mention the important person to whom he
now belonged. Notwithstanding this satisfactory guarantee,
Captain Dalgetty would still have hesitated, such was his anxiety
to witness the fate of his companion Gustavus, had not two
Highlanders seized him by the arms, two more pushed him on
behind, while a fifth exclaimed, "Hout awa wi' the daft
Sassenach! does she no hear the Laird bidding her up to her ain
castle, wi' her special voice, and isna that very mickle honour
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