What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

-Drabble, Margaret
  A Summer Birdcage, ch.11.

E M Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. And I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

-Beauchamp
   Journal entry, May.