Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 27 Page 27

‘She’s a born mistress, just as Gerald is a born lover — AMANT EN TITRE. If as somebody says all women are either wives or mistresses, then Gudrun is a mistress.’

‘And all men either lovers or husbands,’ cried Ursula. ‘But why not both?’

‘The one excludes the other,’ he laughed.

‘Then I want a lover,’ cried Ursula.

‘No you don’t,’ he said.

‘But I do,’ she wailed.

He kissed her, and laughed.

It was two days after this that Ursula was to go to fetch her things from the house in Beldover. The removal had taken place,