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

other man for his sake."
"How dare you!" gasped Lucy, with the
roaring of waters in her ears. "Oh, how like a
man!--I mean, to suppose that a woman is
always thinking about a man."
"But you are."
She summoned physical disgust.
"You're shocked, but I mean to shock you. It's
the only hope at times. I can reach you no
other way. You must marry, or your life will be
wasted. You have gone too far to retreat. I
have no time for the tenderness, and the
comradeship, and the poetry, and the things
that really matter, and for which you marry. I
know that, with George, you will find them,
and that you love him. Then be his wife. He is
already part of you. Though you fly to Greece,
and never see him again, or forget his very
name, George will work in your thoughts till
you die. It isn't possible to love and to part.