I have always been like the Greeks and didn’t know. - E. M. Forster

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram.

When they sat it was nearly always in the same position – Maurice in a chair, and Durham at his feet, leaning against him. In the world of their friends this attracted no notice. Maurice would stroke Durham’s hair.