A Room With a View by Edward Morgan Forster Chapter 10 Page 14

“Friends of Cecil's,” he repeated, “'and so really dee-sire- rebel. Ahem! Honeychurch, I have just telegraphed to them.'“

She got up from the grass.

It was hard on Lucy. Mr. Beebe sympathized with her very much. While she believed that her snub about the Miss Alans came from Sir Harry Otway, she had borne it like a good girl. She might well “screech” when she heard that it came partly from her lover. Mr. Vyse was a tease — something worse than a tease: he took a malicious pleasure in thwarting people. The clergyman, knowing this, looked at Miss Honeychurch with more than his usual kindness.

When she exclaimed, “But Cecil's Emersons — they can't possibly be the same ones — there is that —