A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems

Chapter V: Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing
It was a family saying that "you never knew
which way Charlotte Bartlett would turn." She
was perfectly pleasant and sensible over
Lucy's adventure, found the abridged account
of it quite adequate, and paid suitable tribute
to the courtesy of Mr. George Emerson. She
and Miss Lavish had had an adventure also.
They had been stopped at the Dazio coming
back, and the young officials there, who
seemed impudent and desoeuvre, had tried to
search their reticules for provisions. It might
have been most unpleasant. Fortunately Miss
Lavish was a match for any one.
For good or for evil, Lucy was left to face her
problem alone. None of her friends had seen
her, either in the Piazza or, later on, by the
embankment. Mr. Beebe, indeed, noticing her
startled eyes at dinner-time, had again passed
to himself the remark of "Too much
Beethoven." But he only supposed that she was
ready for an adventure, not that she had