A Room With a View by Edward Morgan Forster Chapter 15 Page 11

and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm — yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

“Oh, Mr. Emerson, I see you're clever!”

“Eh — ?”

“I see you're going to be clever. I hope you didn't go behaving like that to poor Freddy.”

George's eyes laughed, and Lucy suspected that he and her mother would get on rather well.

“No, I didn't,” he said. “He behaved that way to me. It is his philosophy. Only he starts life with it; and I have tried the Note of Interrogation first.”