Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 6 Page 44

‘I’ve not come back here as it was before,’ she said. ‘I only came because the others wanted me to, not for your sake.’

‘My dear Pussum, you know you are your own mistress. I don’t want you to do anything but use the flat for your own convenience — you know it, I’ve told you so many times.’

She did not reply, but silently, reservedly reached for the tea-pot. They all sat round and drank tea. Gerald could feel the electric connection between him and her so strongly, as she sat there quiet and withheld, that another set of conditions altogether had come to pass. Her silence and her immutability perplexed him. HOW was he going to come to her? And yet he felt it quite inevitable. He trusted completely to the current that held them.