'Yes, if you like. I have loved. But there is a beyond, where there is
not love.'
She could not submit to this. She felt it swooning over her. But she
could not submit.
'But how do you know--if you have never REALLY loved?' she asked.
'It is true, what I say; there is a beyond, in you, in me, which is
further than love, beyond the scope, as stars are beyond the scope of
vision, some of them.'
'Then there is no love,' cried Ursula.
'Ultimately, no, there is something else. But, ultimately, there IS no
love.'
Ursula was given over to this statement for some moments. Then she half
rose from her chair, saying, in a final, repellent voice:
'Then let me go home--what am I doing here?'
'There is the door,' he said. 'You are a free agent.'
He was suspended finely and perfectly in this extremity. She hung
motionless for some seconds, then she sat down again.
'If there is no love, what is there?' she cried, almost jeering.
'Something,' he said, looking at her, battling with his soul, with all
his might.
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