Part 1, Chapter 1

Questions

1. Who is Lucy Honeychurch travelling with?
2. What problem do they have with the rooms they've been given in their hotel?
3. When a strange man offers to switch rooms with Lucy and Charlotte, what is Charlotte's reaction?
4. Who will be taking over the parish in Lucy's neighborhood of Summer Street?
5. Why does Charlotte take the larger room in the room swap?

Answers

1. Her cousin Charlotte
2. The rooms don't have a view of the Arno River.
3. She finds it to be most improper and is shocked by the proposal.
4. Mr. Beebe
5. To keep young Lucy from having shared a room where a young man has been.