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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: He followed with evident amusement the surprised glance which
Wyant turned on the young girl's impassive figure.
"Sybilla," he pursued, "is a votary of the arts; she has
inherited her fond father's passion for the unattainable.
Luckily, however, she also recently inherited a tidy legacy from
her grandmother; and having seen the Leonardo, on which its
discoverer had placed a price far beyond my reach, she took a
step which deserves to go down to history: she invested her whole
inheritance in the purchase of the picture, thus enabling me to
spend my closing years in communion with one of the world's
masterpieces. My dear sir, could Antigone do more?"
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