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

"One is very thankful that she has such a
resource. She is evidently much worried, as, of
course, she ought to be. I know all about it.
The marriage was so near that it must have
been a hard struggle before she could wind
herself up to speak."
Miss Bartlett gave a kind of wriggle, and he
prepared for a discussion. He had never
fathomed Miss Bartlett. As he had put it to
himself at Florence, "she might yet reveal
depths of strangeness, if not of meaning." But
she was so unsympathetic that she must be
reliable. He assumed that much, and he had no
hesitation in discussing Lucy with her. Minnie
was fortunately collecting ferns.
She opened the discussion with: "We had
much better let the matter drop."
"I wonder."
"It is of the highest importance that there