Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 27 Page 4

he’s had the licence ready. Only I — I wasn’t ready in myself. Now I am ready — is there anything to be disagreeable about?’

‘Certainly not,’ said Gudrun, but in a tone of cold reproof. ‘You are perfectly free to do as you like.’

‘“Ready in yourself” — YOURSELF, that’s all that matters, isn’t it! “I wasn’t ready in myself,”‘ he mimicked her phrase offensively. ‘You and YOURSELF, you’re of some importance, aren’t you?’

She drew herself up and set back her throat, her eyes shining yellow and dangerous.

‘I am to myself,’ she said, wounded and mortified. ‘I know I am not to anybody else. You only wanted to BULLY me —