It is my own affair.'
'A ten-pound note on it,' said Birkin.
'You don't admit that a woman is a social being?' asked Ursula of
Gerald.
'She is both,' said Gerald. 'She is a social being, as far as society
is concerned. But for her own private self, she is a free agent, it is
her own affair, what she does.'
'But won't it be rather difficult to arrange the two halves?' asked
Ursula.
'Oh no,' replied Gerald. 'They arrange themselves naturally--we see it
now, everywhere.'
'Don't you laugh so pleasantly till you're out of the wood,' said
Birkin.
Gerald knitted his brows in momentary irritation.
'Was I laughing?' he said.
'IF,' said Hermione at last, 'we could only realise, that in the SPIRIT
we are all one, all equal in the spirit, all brothers there--the rest
wouldn't matter, there would be no more of this carping and envy and
this struggle for power, which destroys, only destroys.'
This speech was received in silence, and almost immediately the party
rose from the table.
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