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

He repeated: "'The sort that can know no one
intimately.' It is true. I fell to pieces the very
first day we were engaged. I behaved like a
cad to Beebe and to your brother. You are
even greater than I thought." She withdrew a
step. "I'm not going to worry you. You are far
too good to me. I shall never forget your
insight; and, dear, I only blame you for this:
you might have warned me in the early stages,
before you felt you wouldn't marry me, and so
have given me a chance to improve. I have
never known you till this evening. I have just
used you as a peg for my silly notions of what a
woman should be. But this evening you are a
different person: new thoughts--even a new
voice--"
"What do you mean by a new voice?" she
asked, seized with incontrollable anger.
"I mean that a new person seems speaking
through you," said he.
Then she lost her balance. She cried: "If you