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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: furiously.
"A photograph? A photograph, did you say? Good God, man, not
ten people have been allowed to set foot in that room! A
PHOTOGRAPH?"
Wyant saw his mistake, but saw also that he had gone too far to
retreat.
"I know, sir, from what Clyde has told me, that you object to
having any reproduction of the picture published; but he hoped
you might let me take a photograph for his personal use--not to
be reproduced in his book, but simply to give him something to
work by. I should take the photograph myself, and the negative
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