ABSTRACT
She learned, to her horror, that Margaret, now of age, was taking her money out of the old safe investments and putting it into Foreign Things, which always smash. Her own fortune was invested in Home Rails, and most ardently did she beg her niece to imitate her. Then we should be together, dear.’ Margaret, out of politeness, invested a few hundreds in Nottingham and Derby Railway, though the Foreign Things did admirably and the Nottingham and Derby declined with the steady dignity of which only Home Rails are capable … (E. M. Forster, Howard’s End, 1921 [1948], pp. 13–14)
