in the human power completely — and with the other, it wants to be free, wild. The two wills sometimes lock — you know that, if ever you’ve felt a horse bolt, while you’ve been driving it.’

‘I have felt a horse bolt while I was driving it,’ said Gerald, ‘but it didn’t make me know it had two wills. I only knew it was frightened.’

Hermione had ceased to listen. She simply became oblivious when these subjects were started.

‘Why should a horse want to put itself in the human power?’ asked Ursula. ‘That is quite incomprehensible to me. I don’t believe it ever wanted it.’

‘Yes it did. It’s the last, perhaps highest, love-impulse: resign your will to the higher being,’