Again he laughed.
'It's one way of getting rid of everything,' she said, 'to get
married.'
'And one way of accepting the whole world,' he added.
'A whole other world, yes,' she said happily.
'Perhaps there's Gerald--and Gudrun--' he said.
'If there is there is, you see,' she said. 'It's no good our worrying.
We can't really alter them, can we?'
'No,' he said. 'One has no right to try--not with the best intentions
in the world.'
'Do you try to force them?' she asked.
'Perhaps,' he said. 'Why should I want him to be free, if it isn't his
business?'
She paused for a time.
'We can't MAKE him happy, anyhow,' she said. 'He'd have to be it of
himself.'
'I know,' he said. 'But we want other people with us, don't we?'
'Why should we?' she asked.
'I don't know,' he said uneasily. 'One has a hankering after a sort of
further fellowship.'
'But why?' she insisted. 'Why should you hanker after other people? Why
should you need them?'
This hit him right on the quick.
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