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

"All right, dear," said Mrs. Honeychurch
kindly. She went into the drawing-room, and
Mr. Beebe heard her kiss Lucy and say: "I am
sorry I was so cross about Greece, but it came
on the top of the dahlias."
Rather a hard voice said: "Thank you, mother;
that doesn't matter a bit."
"And you are right, too--Greece will be all
right; you can go if the Miss Alans will have
you."
"Oh, splendid! Oh, thank you!"
Mr. Beebe followed. Lucy still sat at the piano
with her hands over the keys. She was glad,
but he had expected greater gladness. Her
mother bent over her. Freddy, to whom she
had been singing, reclined on the floor with
his head against her, and an unlit pipe
between his lips. Oddly enough, the group
was beautiful. Mr. Beebe, who loved the art of
the past, was reminded of a favourite theme,