A Room With a View by Edward Morgan Forster Chapter 16 Page 13

“What — ”

“No discussion.”

“But I can't — ”

She shook her head. “Go, please. I do not want to call in Mr. Vyse.”

“You don't mean,” he said, absolutely ignoring Miss Bartlett — “you don't mean that you are going to marry that man?”

The line was unexpected.

She shrugged her shoulders, as if his vulgarity wearied her. “You are merely ridiculous,” she said quietly.

Then his words rose gravely over hers: “You cannot live with Vyse. He's only for an acquaintance. He is for society and cultivated talk. He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.”