Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 13 Page 4

‘Aren’t they! Did you think I had forgotten what I said?’

A swoon went over Ursula’s mind.

‘I don’t want you to remember it — if you don’t want to,’ she struggled to say, through the dark mist that covered her.

There was silence for some moments.

‘No,’ he said. ‘It isn’t that. Only — if we are going to know each other, we must pledge ourselves for ever. If we are going to make a relationship, even of friendship, there must be something final and infallible about it.’

There was a clang of mistrust and almost anger in his voice. She did not answer. Her heart was too much contracted. She could not have spoken.