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

She exclaimed: "How very odd of him!"
"Why so?" asked the son and heir. "Why
shouldn't my permission be asked?"
"What do you know about Lucy or girls or
anything? What ever did you say?"
"I said to Cecil, 'Take her or leave her; it's no
business of mine!'"
"What a helpful answer!" But her own answer,
though more normal in its wording, had been
to the same effect.
"The bother is this," began Freddy.
Then he took up his work again, too shy to say
what the bother was. Mrs. Honeychurch went
back to the window.
"Freddy, you must come. There they still are!"