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

"Oh, mother, what rubbish you talk! Of course
I'm not tired of Windy Corner."
"Then why not say so at once, instead of
considering half an hour?"
She laughed faintly, "Half a minute would be
nearer."
"Perhaps you would like to stay away from
your home altogether?"
"Hush, mother! People will hear you"; for they
had entered Mudie's. She bought Baedeker,
and then continued: "Of course I want to live at
home; but as we are talking about it, I may as
well say that I shall want to be away in the
future more than I have been. You see, I come
into my money next year."
Tears came into her mother's eyes.
Driven by nameless bewilderment, by what is
in older people termed "eccentricity," Lucy