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第55章

Mino T HE DAYS went by, and she received no sign.Was he going to ignore her, was he going to take no further notice of her secret?

A dreary weight of anxiety and acrid bitterness settled on her.And yet Ursula knew she was only deceiving herself, and that he would proceed.

She said no word to anybody.

Then, sure enough, there came a note from him, asking if she would come to tea with Gudrun, to his rooms in town.

`Why does he ask Gudrun as well?' she asked herself at once.`Does he want to protect himself, or does he think I would not go alone?' She was tormented by the thought that he wanted to protect himself.But at the end of all, she only said to herself:

`I don't want Gudrun to be there, because I want him to say something more to me.So I shan't tell Gudrun anything about it, and I shall go alone.

Then I shall know.'

She found herself sitting on the tram-car, mounting up the hill going out of the town, to the place where he had his lodging.She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality.

She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe.What had it all to do with her? She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life.She could not consider any more, what anybody would say of her or think about her.People had passed out of her range, she was absolved.

She had fallen strange and dim, out of the sheath of the material life, as a berry falls from the only world it has ever known, down out of the sheath on to the real unknown.

Birkin was standing in the middle of the room, when she was shown in by the landlady.He too was moved outside himself.She saw him agitated and shaken, a frail, unsubstantial body silent like the node of some violent force, that came out from him and shook her almost into a swoon.

`You are alone?' he said.

`Yes - Gudrun could not come.'

He instantly guessed why.

And they were both seated in silence, in the terrible tension of the room.She was aware that it was a pleasant room, full of light and very restful in its form -- aware also of a fuchsia tree, with dangling scarlet and purple flowers.

`How nice the fuchsias are!' she said, to break the silence.

`Aren't they! Did you think I had forgotten what I said?'

A swoon went over Ursula's mind.

`I don't want you to remember it -- if you don't want to,' she struggled to say, through the dark mist that covered her.

There was silence for some moments.

`No,' he said.`It isn't that.Only -- if we are going to know each other, we must pledge ourselves for ever.If we are going to make a relationship, even of friendship, there must be something final and infallible about it.'

There was a clang of mistrust and almost anger in his voice.She did not answer.Her heart was too much contracted.She could not have spoken.

Seeing she was not going to reply, he continued, almost bitterly, giving himself away:

`I can't say it is love I have to offer -- and it isn't love I want.

It is something much more impersonal and harder -- and rarer.'

There was a silence, out of which she said:

`You mean you don't love me?'

She suffered furiously, saying that.

`Yes, if you like to put it like that.Though perhaps that isn't true.

I don't know.At any rate, I don't feel the emotion of love for you --no, and I don't want to.Because it gives out in the last issues.'

`Love gives out in the last issues?' she asked, feeling numb to the lips.

`Yes, it does.At the very last, one is alone, beyond the influence of love.There is a real impersonal me, that is beyond love, beyond any emotional relationship.So it is with you.But we want to delude ourselves that love is the root.It isn't.It is only the branches.The root is beyond love, a naked kind of isolation, an isolated me, that does not meet and mingle, and never can.'

She watched him with wide, troubled eyes.His face was incandescent in its abstract earnestness.

`And you mean you can't love?' she asked, in trepidation.

`Yes, if you like.I have loved.But there is a beyond, where there is not love.'

She could not submit to this.She felt it swooning over her.But she could not submit.

`But how do you know -- if you have never really loved?' she asked.

`It is true, what I say; there is a beyond, in you, in me, which is further than love, beyond the scope, as stars are beyond the scope of vision, some of them.'

`Then there is no love,' cried Ursula.

`Ultimately, no, there is something else.But, ultimately, there is no love.'

Ursula was given over to this statement for some moments.Then she half rose from her chair, saying, in a final, repellent voice:

`Then let me go home -- what am I doing here?'

`There is the door,' he said.`You are a free agent.'

He was suspended finely and perfectly in this extremity.She hung motionless for some seconds, then she sat down again.

`If there is no love, what is there?' she cried, almost jeering.

`Something,' he said, looking at her, battling with his soul, with all his might.

`What?'

He was silent for a long time, unable to be in communication with her while she was in this state of opposition.

`There is,' he said, in a voice of pure abstraction; `a final me which is stark and impersonal and beyond responsibility.So there is a final you.And it is there I would want to meet you -- not in the emotional, loving plane -- but there beyond, where there is no speech and no terms of agreement.There we are two stark, unknown beings, two utterly strange creatures, I would want to approach you, and you me.And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane.It is quite inhuman, --so there can be no calling to book, in any form whatsoever -- because one is outside the pale of all that is accepted, and nothing known applies.

One can only follow the impulse, taking that which lies in front, and responsible for nothing, asked for nothing, giving nothing, only each taking according to the primal desire.'

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