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

to the stables."
"Lucy dearest--"
"No church for me, thank you."
A sigh, and they departed. The church was
invisible, but up in the darkness to the left
there was a hint of colour. This was a stained
window, through which some feeble light was
shining, and when the door opened Lucy
heard Mr. Beebe's voice running through the
litany to a minute congregation. Even their
church, built upon the slope of the hill so
artfully, with its beautiful raised transept and
its spire of silvery shingle--even their church
had lost its charm; and the thing one never
talked about--religion-- was fading like all the
other things.
She followed the maid into the Rectory.
Would she object to sitting in Mr. Beebe's
study? There was only that one fire.