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

one woman.
"I could hear your beautiful playing, Miss
Honeychurch, though I was in my room with
the door shut. Doors shut; indeed, most
necessary. No one has the least idea of privacy
in this country. And one person catches it from
another."
Lucy answered suitably. Mr. Beebe was not
able to tell the ladies of his adventure at
Modena, where the chambermaid burst in
upon him in his bath, exclaiming cheerfully,
"Fa niente, sono vecchia." He contented
himself with saying: "I quite agree with you,
Miss Alan. The Italians are a most unpleasant
people. They pry everywhere, they see
everything, and they know what we want
before we know it ourselves. We are at their
mercy. They read our thoughts, they foretell
our desires. From the cab-driver down to--to
Giotto, they turn us inside out, and I resent it.
Yet in their heart of hearts they are--how
superficial! They have no conception of the