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Women in Love
by
D.H. Lawrence
CHAPTER I
Sisters
U
rsula and
G
udrun
Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.
`Ursula,' said Gudrun, `don't you
really want
to get married?' Ursula laid her embroidery in her lap and looked up. Her face was calm and considerate.
`I don't know,' she replied. `It depends how you mean.'
Gudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.
`Well,' she said, ironically, `it usually means one thing! But don't you think anyhow, you'd be —' she darkened slightly — `in a better position than you are in now.'
A shadow came over Ursula's face.
`I might,' she said. `But I'm not sure.'
Again Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite.
`You don't think one needs . . .
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