![]() ![]() ![]() Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. But that Lilia should have had a baby - and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! - are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world." He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. ![]() "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. ![]()
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