...done. The time for telegrams and anger was over, and it seemed wisest that the hands of Leonard should be folded on his breast and be filled with flowers....be turned into Tragedy, whose eyes are the stars, whose hands hold the sunset and the dawn. (321) DS Savage quoted the passage with the comment: 'Leonard...

...tournament, and her play went simply to pot ', to the bold and poetical quality of such a sentence as ' Let squalor be turned into Tragedy, whose eyes are...stars, and whose hands hold the sunset and the dawn '. Ultimately Forster was possessed of an ironic spirit which made him the inheritor in this age of...