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

groaned, for the day was hot and the print
small, and the human frame fearfully made;
and his mother, who was writing a letter, did
continually read out to him what she had
written. And continually did she rise from her
seat and part the curtains so that a rivulet of
light fell across the carpet, and make the
remark that they were still there.
"Where aren't they?" said the boy, who was
Freddy, Lucy's brother. "I tell you I'm getting
fairly sick."
"For goodness' sake go out of my
drawing-room, then?" cried Mrs.
Honeychurch, who hoped to cure her children
of slang by taking it literally.
Freddy did not move or reply.
"I think things are coming to a head," she
observed, rather wanting her son's opinion on
the situation if she could obtain it without
undue supplication.