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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: twenty years as a witless man that journeyed without rest to all
the shrines of England. The old man sits, Saxon fashion, head
between fists. We Normans rest the chin on the left palm.
'"Who answers for him?" said I. "If he fails in his duty, who
will pay his fine?"
'"Who will pay my fine?" the pilgrim said. "I have asked that
of all the Saints in England these forty years, less three months
and nine days! They have not answered!" When he lifted his thin
face I saw he was one-eyed, and frail as a rush.
'"Nay, but, Father," I said, "to whom hast thou commended
thyself-?" He shook his head, so I spoke in Saxon: "Whose man
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