Inside the story
Meet Cecil Vyse
Cecil Vyse is Lucy Honeychurch’s cultured, supercilious London fiancé, engaged to her as she moves between the expectations of polite society and a wider world. Self-conscious and emotionally aloof, he treats Lucy less as an equal partner than as a work of art he can refine and improve.
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Tall, refined, and clean-shaven, with square-braced shoulders and a head tilted a little higher than usual, resembling the fastidious saints who guard the portals of a French cathedral; medieval, like a Gothic statue. Wears fashionable, formal London dress.
