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

She and her secret stayed ten days longer in
the deserted Metropolis visiting the scenes
they were to know so well later on. It did her
no harm, Cecil thought, to learn the framework
of society, while society itself was absent on
the golf-links or the moors. The weather was
cool, and it did her no harm. In spite of the
season, Mrs. Vyse managed to scrape together
a dinner-party consisting entirely of the
grandchildren of famous people. The food was
poor, but the talk had a witty weariness that
impressed the girl. One was tired of
everything, it seemed. One launched into
enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and
pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter. In
this atmosphere the Pension Bertolini and
Windy Corner appeared equally crude, and
Lucy saw that her London career would
estrange her a little from all that she had loved
in the past.
The grandchildren asked her to play the
piano.