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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: the public?" Mrs. Touchett interposed.
"Well, these were, in a sense. A personality as big as Margaret
Aubyn's belongs to the world. Such a mind is part of the general
fund of thought. It's the penalty of greatness--one becomes a
monument historique. Posterity pays the cost of keeping one up,
but on condition that one is always open to the public."
"I don't see that that exonerates the man who gives up the keys of
the sanctuary, as it were."
"Who WAS he?" another voice inquired.
"Who was he? Oh, nobody, I fancy--the letter-box, the slit in the
wall through which the letters passed to posterity. . . ."
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