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

unluckily, Mr. Emerson overheard this part,
and called in his deep voice: 'Quite so, quite
so! I honour the woman for her Irish visit.' The
woman! I tell things so badly; but you see what
a tangle we were in by this time, all on account
of S. having been mentioned in the first place.
But that was not all. After dinner Miss Lavish
actually came up and said: 'Miss Alan, I am
going into the smoking-room to talk to those
two nice men. Come, too.' Needless to say, I
refused such an unsuitable invitation, and she
had the impertinence to tell me that it would
broaden my ideas, and said that she had four
brothers, all University men, except one who
was in the army, who always made a point of
talking to commercial travellers."
"Let me finish the story," said Mr. Beebe, who
had returned.
"Miss Lavish tried Miss Pole, myself, every
one, and finally said: 'I shall go alone.' She
went. At the end of five minutes she returned
unobtrusively with a green baize board, and