Ursula was silent, trying to imagine.

‘I think,’ she said at length, involuntarily, ‘that Rupert is right — one wants a new space to be in, and one falls away from the old.’

Gudrun watched her sister with impassive face and steady eyes.

‘One wants a new space to be in, I quite agree,’ she said. ‘But I think that a new world is a development from this world, and that to isolate oneself with one other person, isn’t to find a new world at all, but only to secure oneself in one’s illusions.’

Ursula looked out of the window. In her soul she began to wrestle, and she was frightened. She was always frightened of words, because she knew that mere word-force could