make out — neither can he nor anybody. He seems to think that if you marry you can get through marriage into a third heaven, or something — all very vague.’

‘Very! And who wants a third heaven? As a matter of fact, Rupert has a great yearning to be SAFE — to tie himself to the mast.’

‘Yes. It seems to me he’s mistaken there too,’ said Gudrun. ‘I’m sure a mistress is more likely to be faithful than a wife — just because she is her OWN mistress. No — he says he believes that a man and wife can go further than any other two beings — but WHERE, is not explained. They can know each other, heavenly and hellish, but particularly hellish, so perfectly that they go beyond heaven and hell — into — there it all breaks down —