Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 23 Page 46

‘But where can one go?’ she asked anxiously. ‘After all, there is only the world, and none of it is very distant.’

‘Still,’ he said, ‘I should like to go with you — nowhere. It would be rather wandering just to nowhere. That’s the place to get to — nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.’

Still she meditated.

‘You see, my love,’ she said, ‘I’m so afraid that while we are only people, we’ve got to take the world that’s given — because there isn’t any other.’

‘Yes there is,’ he said. ‘There’s somewhere where we can be free — somewhere where one needn’t