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At least she might acknowledge he was with her.But she only averted her soft, mute face a little from his gaze.And he knew that there were tears in her eyes, her own tears, tears of her strange religion, that put him to nought.

Quite suddenly, he put his hand under her chin and lifted up her face to him.Her dark blue eyes, in their wetness of tears, dilated as if she was startled in her very soul.They looked at him through their tears in terror and a little horror.His light blue eyes were keen, small-pupilled and unnatural in their vision.Her lips parted, as she breathed with difficulty.

The passion came up in him, stroke after stroke, like the ringing of a bronze bell, so strong and unflawed and indomitable.His knees tightened to bronze as he hung above her soft face, whose lips parted and whose eyes dilated in a strange violation.In the grasp of his hand her chin was unutterably soft and silken.He felt strong as winter, his hands were living metal, invincible and not to be turned aside.His heart rang like a bell clanging inside him.

He took her up in his arms.She was soft and inert, motionless.All the while her eyes, in which the tears had not yet dried, were dilated as if in a kind of swoon of fascination and helplessness.He was superhumanly strong, and unflawed, as if invested with supernatural force.

He lifted her close and folded her against him.Her softness, her inert, relaxed weight lay against his own surcharged, bronze-like limbs in a heaviness of desirability that would destroy him, if he were not fulfilled.She moved convulsively, recoiling away from him.His heart went up like a flame of ice, he closed over her like steel.He would destroy her rather than be denied.

But the overweening power of his body was too much for her.She relaxed again, and lay loose and soft, panting in a little delirium.And to him, she was so sweet, she was such bliss of release, that he would have suffered a whole eternity of torture rather than forego one second of this pang of unsurpassable bliss.

`My God,' he said to her, his face drawn and strange, transfigured, `what next?'

She lay perfectly still, with a still, child-like face and dark eyes, looking at him.She was lost, fallen right away.

`I shall always love you,' he said, looking at her.

But she did not hear.She lay, looking at him as at something she could never understand, never: as a child looks at a grown-up person, without hope of understanding, only submitting.

He kissed her, kissed her eyes shut, so that she could not look any more.He wanted something now, some recognition, some sign, some admission.

But she only lay silent and child-like and remote, like a child that is overcome and cannot understand, only feels lost.He kissed her again, giving up.

`Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?' he asked.

The twilight was falling slate-blue at the window.She closed her eyes, closed away the monotonous level of dead wonder, and opened them again to the every-day world.

`Yes,' she said briefly, regaining her will with a click.She went again to the window.Blue evening had fallen over the cradle of snow and over the great pallid slopes.But in the heaven the peaks of snow were rosy, glistening like transcendent, radiant spikes of blossom in the heavenly upper-world, so lovely and beyond.

Gudrun saw all their loveliness, she knew how immortally beautiful they were, great pistils of rose-coloured, snow-fed fire in the blue twilight of the heaven.She could see it, she knew it, but she was not of it.She was divorced, debarred, a soul shut out.

With a last look of remorse, she turned away, and was doing her hair.

He had unstrapped the luggage, and was waiting, watching her.She knew he was watching her.It made her a little hasty and feverish in her precipitation.

They went downstairs, both with a strange other-world look on their faces, and with a glow in their eyes.They saw Birkin and Ursula sitting at the long table in a corner, waiting for them.

`How good and simple they look together,' Gudrun thought, jealously.

She envied them some spontaneity, a childish sufficiency to which she herself could never approach.They seemed such children to her.

`Such good Kranzkuchen!' cried Ursula greedily.`So good!'

`Right,' said Gudrun.`Can we have Kaffee mit Kranzkuchen?' she added to the waiter.

And she seated herself on the bench beside Gerald.Birkin, looking at them, felt a pain of tenderness for them.

`I think the place is really wonderful, Gerald,' he said; `prachtvoll and wunderbar and wunderschon and unbeschreiblich and all the other German adjectives.'

Gerald broke into a slight smile.

` I like it,' he said.

The tables, of white scrubbed wood, were placed round three sides of the room, as in a Gasthaus.Birkin and Ursula sat with their backs to the wall, which was of oiled wood, and Gerald and Gudrun sat in the corner next them, near to the stove.It was a fairly large place, with a tiny bar, just like a country inn, but quite simple and bare, and all of oiled wood, ceilings and walls and floor, the only furniture being the tables and benches going round three sides, the great green stove, and the bar and the doors on the fourth side.The windows were double, and quite uncurtained.

It was early evening.

The coffee came -- hot and good -- and a whole ring of cake.

`A whole Kuchen!' cried Ursula.`They give you more than us! I want some of yours.'

There were other people in the place, ten altogether, so Birkin had found out: two artists, three students, a man and wife, and a Professor and two daughters -- all Germans.The four English people, being newcomers, sat in their coign of vantage to watch.The Germans peeped in at the door, called a word to the waiter, and went away again.It was not meal-time, so they did not come into this dining-room, but betook themselves, when their boots were changed, to the Reunionsaal.

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