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

without reading any more, and after a little
hesitation sat down elsewhere, and pencilled a
note on his knee.
Then he lit another cigarette, which did not
seem quite as divine as the first, and
considered what might be done to make
Windy Corner drawing-room more distinctive.
With that outlook it should have been a
successful room, but the trail of Tottenham
Court Road was upon it; he could almost
visualize the motor-vans of Messrs. Shoolbred
and Messrs. Maple arriving at the door and
depositing this chair, those varnished
book-cases, that writing-table. The table
recalled Mrs. Honeychurch's letter. He did not
want to read that letter--his temptations never
lay in that direction; but he worried about it
none the less. It was his own fault that she was
discussing him with his mother; he had wanted
her support in his third attempt to win Lucy; he
wanted to feel that others, no matter who they
were, agreed with him, and so he had asked
their permission. Mrs. Honeychurch had been