A Great Unrecorded History

"When I am with him, smoking or talking quietly ahead, or whatever it may be, I see, beyond my own happiness and intimacy, occasional glimpses of the happiness of 1000s of others whose names I shall never hear, and know that there is a great unrecorded history."

                         E. M. Forster (ed. M. Lago and P. N. Furbank),
                         Selected Letters of E. M. Forster I: 1879–1920
                         (London 1983), 269