Classics Narrated

Lucy has frustrating conversations with the Misses Alan and her mother, but a chance meeting with old Mr. Emerson helps her realize what she's tried to deny. The last chapter brings us back to Florence, and the room whose view started the tale.

Mr. Beebe learns that Cecil's engagement to Lucy has been broken, as Cecil leaves Windy Corners. Without completely understanding her motives, he supports her plan to escape, by traveling to Greece with the elderly ladies they met in Florence.

Lucy, denying her feelings for George, throws him out, following lively discussion. She then breaks her engagement to Cecil, who behaves exasperatingly well.

Lucy refuses to face her feelings for George, as he and his father settle in the neighborhood. Cecil, oblivious, narrates a passage from a new novel clearly based on her encounter with George in Florence.

The Emersons arrive in the Summer Street neighborhood. Freddy and Mr. Beebe make friends with George, and Cecil falls further in the estimation of Lucy's mother.

A clearer picture of the Honeychurch family's position in their community emerges. Cecil meddles in finding new tenants, and Lucy goes to visit him and his mother at their place in London.

Cecil meets the neighbors of the Honeychurch family, and dislikes them. His first kiss from Lucy goes awry.

From Italy, the scene shifts to Sussex, England. Here we meet Lucy's mother and brother, and find she has a new suitor.

All our cast goes for a sight-seeing drive, with a reckless and amorous coachman. Lucy has an encounter with George Emerson that causes consternation; Charlotte decides they must leave Florence.

Lucy, confused by the previous day, accompanies Charlotte on errands. En route, they meet the novelist, Miss Lavish, and hear distressing rumors of the Emersons from the Rev. Mr. Eager.

Only at the piano does Lucy reveal her inward passion; conversation with Miss Alan and Rev. Mr. Beebe shows social constraints. She goes alone on an errand, and sees a violent crime. Faint, she accepts George Emerson's company.

Lucy sets out to view the Church of the Holy Cross, with a clever lady as guide. They lose their way, and then lose sight of one another. Lucy meets the Emersons at the church, and learns more of them than she wanted to know.

Miss Honeychurch, chaperoned by Miss Bartlett, touring Florence in the early 1900's, has an unsuitable room; unsuitable strangers offer their better rooms instead.