A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

Over such trivialities as these many a valuable hour may slip away, and the traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.