Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 24 Page 18

The mother glanced at Gudrun indifferently.

‘Yes,’ she said. Then she turned her wonderful, forget-me-not blue eyes up to her son, as she slowly sat down in the chair he had brought her.

‘I came to ask you about your father,’ she said, in her rapid, scarcely-audible voice. ‘I didn’t know you had company.’

‘No? Didn’t Winifred tell you? Miss Brangwen stayed to dinner, to make us a little more lively — ’

Mrs Crich turned slowly round to Gudrun, and looked at her, but with unseeing eyes.

‘I’m afraid it would be no treat to her.’ Then she turned again to her son. ‘Winifred tells me the doctor had something to say about your father. What is it?’