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

"We were speaking of motives," said Cecil,
on whom the interruption jarred.
"My dear Cecil, look here." She spread out
her knees and perched her card-case on her
lap. "This is me. That's Windy Corner. The rest
of the pattern is the other people. Motives are
all very well, but the fence comes here."
"We weren't talking of real fences," said Lucy,
laughing.
"Oh, I see, dear--poetry."
She leant placidly back. Cecil wondered why
Lucy had been amused.
"I tell you who has no 'fences,' as you call
them," she said, "and that's Mr. Beebe."
"A parson fenceless would mean a parson
defenceless."
Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but