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

the London and Brighton station, and had to
hire a cab up. No one was at home except
Freddy and his friend, who had to stop their
tennis and to entertain her for a solid hour.
Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o'clock, and
these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a
somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper
lawn for tea.
"I shall never forgive myself," said Miss
Bartlett, who kept on rising from her seat, and
had to be begged by the united company to
remain. "I have upset everything. Bursting in
on young people! But I insist on paying for my
cab up. Grant that, at any rate."
"Our visitors never do such dreadful things,"
said Lucy, while her brother, in whose
memory the boiled egg had already grown
unsubstantial, exclaimed in irritable tones:
"Just what I've been trying to convince Cousin
Charlotte of, Lucy, for the last half hour."
"I do not feel myself an ordinary visitor," said