Forster E.M. Howards End

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and AP English Test Preparation.One may as well begin with Helen’s letters to her sister.
HOWARDS END,
Tuesday.
DEAREST MEG,
It isn’t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and
altogether delightful — red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the
dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives
tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into dining-room or drawingroom.
Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and
there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three
bedrooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn’t all
the house really, but it’s all that one notices — nine windows as you look
up from the front garden.
Then there’s a very big wych-elm — to the left as you look up —
leaning a little over the house, and standing on the boundary between
the garden and meadow. I quite love that tree already. Also ordinary
elms, oaks — no nastier than ordinary oaks — pear-trees, apple-trees, and a
vine. No silver birches, though. However, I must get on to my host and