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

it, when Freddy was a purple-faced baby; and
though she had been to Italy, it had lost none
of its charm.
Presently they came to a little clearing among
the pines--another tiny green alp, solitary this
time, and holding in its bosom a shallow pool.
She exclamed, "The Sacred Lake!"
"Why do you call it that?"
"I can't remember why. I suppose it comes
out of some book. It's only a puddle now, but
you see that stream going through it? Well, a
good deal of water comes down after heavy
rains, and can't get away at once, and the pool
becomes quite large and beautiful. Then
Freddy used to bathe there. He is very fond of
it."
"And you?"
He meant, "Are you fond of it?" But she