A Room With a View by Edward Morgan Forster Chapter 5 Page 21

curiosity. Lucy, though she wished never to see the Emersons again, was not disposed to condemn them on a single word.

“Do you mean,” she asked, “that he is an irreligious man? We know that already.”

“Lucy, dear — ” said Miss Bartlett, gently reproving her cousin's penetration.

“I should be astonished if you knew all. The boy — an innocent child at the time — I will exclude. God knows what his education and his inherited qualities may have made him.”

“Perhaps,” said Miss Bartlett, “it is something that we had better not hear.”

“To speak plainly,” said Mr. Eager, “it is. I will say no more.”