face.

‘Ah!’ she said laughing. ‘What is it all but words!’ And so again she closed the conversation. But Ursula was still brooding.

‘And how do you find home, now you have come back to it?’ she asked.

Gudrun paused for some moments, coldly, before answering. Then, in a cold truthful voice, she said:

‘I find myself completely out of it.’

‘And father?’

Gudrun looked at Ursula, almost with resentment, as if brought to bay.

‘I haven’t thought about him: I’ve refrained,’ she said coldly.