'You mean if you knew the alternative?' asked Birkin. 'And since you
don't know it, marriage is a PIS ALLER.'
Gerald looked up at Birkin with the same hot, constrained eyes.
'One does have the feeling that marriage is a PIS ALLER,' he admitted.
'Then don't do it,' said Birkin. 'I tell you,' he went on, 'the same as
I've said before, marriage in the old sense seems to me repulsive.
EGOISME A DEUX is nothing to it. It's a sort of tacit hunting in
couples: the world all in couples, each couple in its own little house,
watching its own little interests, and stewing in its own little
privacy--it's the most repulsive thing on earth.'
'I quite agree,' said Gerald. 'There's something inferior about it. But
as I say, what's the alternative.'
'One should avoid this HOME instinct. It's not an instinct, it's a
habit of cowardliness. One should never have a HOME.'
'I agree really,' said Gerald. 'But there's no alternative.'
'We've got to find one. I do believe in a permanent union between a man
and a woman.
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