‘Undoubtedly!’ said Gudrun.

‘And it ought to be admitted, simply,’ said Ursula.

‘Certainly it ought,’ said Gudrun. ‘But you’ll find that the really chic thing is to be so absolutely ordinary, so perfectly commonplace and like the person in the street, that you really are a masterpiece of humanity, not the person in the street actually, but the artistic creation of her — ’

‘How awful!’ cried Ursula.

‘Yes, Ursula, it IS awful, in most respects. You daren’t be anything that isn’t amazingly A TERRE, SO much A TERRE that it is the artistic creation of ordinariness.’

‘It’s very dull to create oneself into nothing better,’