I think of a passage in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: """ The idea of doing away with this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dressmakers an

I think of a passage in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: """ The idea of doing away with this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dressmakers and newspaper reporters who stood outside fighting to get near the joints of the canvas, exceeded even old Catherine's courage, though for a moment she had weighed the possibility. "Why, they might take a photograph of my child AND PUT IT IN THE PAPERS!" Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder. """