Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 23 Page 15

not jealous in the least of Hermione, she is nothing to me, not THAT!’ And Ursula snapped her fingers. ‘No, it’s you who are a liar. It’s you who must return, like a dog to his vomit. It is what Hermione STANDS FOR that I HATE. I HATE it. It is lies, it is false, it is death. But you want it, you can’t help it, you can’t help yourself. You belong to that old, deathly way of living — then go back to it. But don’t come to me, for I’ve nothing to do with it.’

And in the stress of her violent emotion, she got down from the car and went to the hedgerow, picking unconsciously some flesh-pink spindleberries, some of which were burst, showing their orange seeds.

‘Ah, you are a fool,’ he cried, bitterly, with some contempt.