Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze of smoke, chin propped on her hand, pins and needles spreading up through her arm as she read her way through Richardson's Clarissa.
Cecilia wonders why her relationship with her childhood playmate Robbie Turner is so awkward and uncomfortable since they both come down from Cambridge: what's going on? Is he too proud of his first? Does he despise her third? Why in the earth did he step BAREFOOT into the library?
She was told to fill a vase (a special vase) with flowers and water, in order to welcome properly their new guest, Paul Marshall (a friend of Leon Tallis).
She decides to fill the vase outdoors.
Robbie turned suddenly at the sound of her approach [...] They were silent for a while.
'Beautiful day', she then said through a sigh.
He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
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