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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: it was indeed devotion that had swayed Adele Bernauer, devotion to
her master more than to her mistress. This was hardly to be
wondered at. But she had not thought what might come from her
revelations, what had come of them. For now her pet, the baby who
had once lain in her arms, the handsome, gifted man whom she adored
with more than the love of many a mother for the child of her own
blood, was under the shadow of hideous disgrace and doom, was the
just prey of the law for open trial and condemnation as a murderer.
Muller sighed deeply once more and then came one of those moments
which he had spoken of to the unhappy woman that very day. He felt
like cursing the fatal gift that was his, the gift to see what was
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