You've
got me. And yet you want to force other people to love you as well. You
do try to bully them to love you. And even then, you don't want their
love.'
His face was full of real perplexity.
'Don't I?' he said. 'It's the problem I can't solve. I KNOW I want a
perfect and complete relationship with you: and we've nearly got it--we
really have. But beyond that. DO I want a real, ultimate relationship
with Gerald? Do I want a final, almost extra-human relationship with
him--a relationship in the ultimate of me and him--or don't I?'
She looked at him for a long time, with strange bright eyes, but she
did not answer.
CHAPTER XXVII.
FLITTING
That evening Ursula returned home very bright-eyed and wondrous--which
irritated her people. Her father came home at suppertime, tired after
the evening class, and the long journey home. Gudrun was reading, the
mother sat in silence.
Suddenly Ursula said to the company at large, in a bright voice,
'Rupert and I are going to be married tomorrow.
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