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

and tip-toeing?"
"It's only for a few days."
"But why at all?"
Lucy was silent. She was drifting away from
her mother. It was quite easy to say, "Because
George Emerson has been bothering me, and
if he hears I've given up Cecil may begin
again"--quite easy, and it had the incidental
advantage of being true. But she could not say
it. She disliked confidences, for they might
lead to self-knowledge and to that king of
terrors--Light. Ever since that last evening at
Florence she had deemed it unwise to reveal
her soul.
Mrs. Honeychurch, too, was silent. She was
thinking, "My daughter won't answer me; she
would rather be with those inquisitive old
maids than with Freddy and me. Any rag, tag,
and bobtail apparently does if she can leave
her home." And as in her case thoughts never