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'Doesn't inspire me,' said Gerald.
'That's just it,' said Gudrun.
'I believe in love, in a real ABANDON, if you're capable of it,' said
Gerald.
'So do I,' said she.
'And so does Rupert, too--though he is always shouting.'
'No,' said Gudrun. 'He won't abandon himself to the other person. You
can't be sure of him. That's the trouble I think.'
'Yet he wants marriage! Marriage--ET PUIS?'
'Le paradis!' mocked Gudrun.
Birkin, as he drove, felt a creeping of the spine, as if somebody was
threatening his neck. But he shrugged with indifference. It began to
rain. Here was a change. He stopped the car and got down to put up the
hood.
CHAPTER XXII.
WOMAN TO WOMAN
They came to the town, and left Gerald at the railway station. Gudrun
and Winifred were to come to tea with Birkin, who expected Ursula also.
In the afternoon, however, the first person to turn up was Hermione.
Birkin was out, so she went in the drawing-room, looking at his books
and papers, and playing on the piano.
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