Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 13 Page 5

Seeing she was not going to reply, he continued, almost bitterly, giving himself away:

‘I can’t say it is love I have to offer — and it isn’t love I want. It is something much more impersonal and harder — and rarer.’

There was a silence, out of which she said:

‘You mean you don’t love me?’

She suffered furiously, saying that.

‘Yes, if you like to put it like that. Though perhaps that isn’t true. I don’t know. At any rate, I don’t feel the emotion of love for you — no, and I don’t want to. Because it gives out in the last issues.’

‘Love gives out in the last issues?’