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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: Bothwell; "I have seen enough of your art already. Perhaps you
would poison us both to conceal your own necromancy. But we are
persons who want neither the means of making our wrongs known,
nor the assistance of friends to right them."
"You have had no wrongs from me, madam," said the adept. "You
sought one who is little grateful for such honour. He seeks no
one, and only gives responses to those who invite and call upon
him. After all, you have but learned a little sooner the evil
which you must still be doomed to endure. I hear your servant's
step at the door, and will detain your ladyship and Lady Forester
no longer. The next packet from the Continent will explain what
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