ABSTRACT

EM Foster approaches this complexity in his book Howards End. He writes here of Helen’s thoughts on leaving a concert she has attended with a group of friends and relations:

Helen pushed her way out during the applause, she desired to be alone. The music had summed up to her all that had happened or could happen in her career. She read it as a tangible statement, which could never be superseded. The notes meant this and that to her, and they could have no other meaning. She pushed right out of the building, and walked slowly down the outside stair­ case, breathing the autumnal air, and then she strolled home.1