Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 30 Page 50

yet he was all transfused and roused, waiting for her.

It confused her. Turning her head aside, she said:

‘I shall always TELL you, whenever I am going to make any change — ’

And with this she moved out of the room.

He sat suspended in a fine recoil of disappointment, that seemed gradually to be destroying his understanding. But the unconscious state of patience persisted in him. He remained motionless, without thought or knowledge, for a long time. Then he rose, and went downstairs, to play at chess with one of the students. His face was open and clear, with a certain innocent LAISSER-ALLER that troubled Gudrun most, made her almost afraid of him, whilst she disliked him deeply for it.