'
'Very! And who wants a third heaven? As a matter of fact, Rupert has a
great yearning to be SAFE--to tie himself to the mast.'
'Yes. It seems to me he's mistaken there too,' said Gudrun. 'I'm sure a
mistress is more likely to be faithful than a wife--just because she is
her OWN mistress. No--he says he believes that a man and wife can go
further than any other two beings--but WHERE, is not explained. They
can know each other, heavenly and hellish, but particularly hellish, so
perfectly that they go beyond heaven and hell--into--there it all
breaks down--into nowhere.'
'Into Paradise, he says,' laughed Gerald.
Gudrun shrugged her shoulders. 'FE M'EN FICHE of your Paradise!' she
said.
'Not being a Mohammedan,' said Gerald. Birkin sat motionless, driving
the car, quite unconscious of what they said. And Gudrun, sitting
immediately behind him, felt a sort of ironic pleasure in thus exposing
him.
'He says,' she added, with a grimace of irony, 'that you can find an
eternal equilibrium in marriage, if you accept the unison, and still
leave yourself separate, don't try to fuse.
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