Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 25 Page 6

‘You argue it like a lawyer — or like Hamlet’s to-be-or-not-to-be. If I were you I would NOT marry: but ask Gudrun, not me. You’re not marrying me, are you?’

Gerald did not heed the latter part of this speech.

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘one must consider it coldly. It is something critical. One comes to the point where one must take a step in one direction or another. And marriage is one direction-’

‘And what is the other?’ asked Birkin quickly.

Gerald looked up at him with hot, strangely-conscious eyes, that the other man could not understand.

‘I can’t say,’ he replied. ‘If I knew THAT — ’ He