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

"Look at the lights going over the bridge."
"But this room reminds me of Charlotte. How
horrible to grow old in Charlotte's way! To
think that evening at the rectory that she
shouldn't have heard your father was in the
house. For she would have stopped me going
in, and he was the only person alive who could
have made me see sense. You couldn't have
made me. When I am very happy"--she kissed
him--"I remember on how little it all hangs. If
Charlotte had only known, she would have
stopped me going in, and I should have gone
to silly Greece, and become different for
ever."
"But she did know," said George; "she did see
my father, surely. He said so."
"Oh, no, she didn't see him. She was upstairs
with old Mrs. Beebe, don't you remember, and
then went straight to the church. She said so."
George was obstinate again. "My father," said