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

here. Please do not put 'Private' outside your
envelope again. No one opens my letters.
"Yours affectionately,
"L. M. Honeychurch."
Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the
sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether
our secret is important or not. Were Lucy and
her cousin closeted with a great thing which
would destroy Cecil's life if he discovered it,
or with a little thing which he would laugh at?
Miss Bartlett suggested the former. Perhaps
she was right. It had become a great thing
now. Left to herself, Lucy would have told her
mother and her lover ingenuously, and it
would have remained a little thing. "Emerson,
not Harris"; it was only that a few weeks ago.
She tried to tell Cecil even now when they
were laughing about some beautiful lady who
had smitten his heart at school. But her body
behaved so ridiculously that she stopped.