'
Birkin lifted his shoulders.
'One might as well be dead nuts on noses. There are all sorts of noses,
snub and otherwise-'
Gerald laughed.
'And all sorts of marriage, also snub and otherwise?' he said.
'That's it.'
'And you think if I marry, it will be snub?' asked Gerald quizzically,
his head a little on one side.
Birkin laughed quickly.
'How do I know what it will be!' he said. 'Don't lambaste me with my
own parallels-'
Gerald pondered a while.
'But I should like to know your opinion, exactly,' he said.
'On your marriage?--or marrying? Why should you want my opinion? I've
got no opinions. I'm not interested in legal marriage, one way or
another. It's a mere question of convenience.'
Still Gerald watched him closely.
'More than that, I think,' he said seriously. 'However you may be bored
by the ethics of marriage, yet really to marry, in one's own personal
case, is something critical, final-'
'You mean there is something final in going to the registrar with a
woman?'
'If you're coming back with her, I do,' said Gerald.
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