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

over--playing tricks on people, on the most
sacred form of life that he can find. Next, I
meet you together, and find him protecting
and teaching you and your mother to be
shocked, when it was for YOU to settle whether
you were shocked or no. Cecil all over again.
He daren't let a woman decide. He's the type
who's kept Europe back for a thousand years.
Every moment of his life he's forming you,
telling you what's charming or amusing or
ladylike, telling you what a man thinks
womanly; and you, you of all women, listen to
his voice instead of to your own. So it was at
the Rectory, when I met you both again; so it
has been the whole of this afternoon.
Therefore --not 'therefore I kissed you,'
because the book made me do that, and I wish
to goodness I had more self-control. I'm not
ashamed. I don't apologize. But it has
frightened you, and you may not have noticed
that I love you. Or would you have told me to
go, and dealt with a tremendous thing so
lightly? But therefore-- therefore I settled to
fight him."