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Through drawn-out dialogue and shifting emotions, the sisters debate commitment, desire, temptation, and whether marriage—or children—feels real or merely inevitable. The opening chapter establishes tension between appearance and inner uncertainty, pairing reflective realism with a sense of private fear.","Women in Love  \nBy D.H. Lawrence  \nPublished by Planet eBook. Visit the site to download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 United States License.   \nCHAPTER I SISTERS  \nUrsula and Gudrun 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.  \n‘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.  \n‘I don’t know,’ she replied. ‘It depends how you mean.’  \nGudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.  \n‘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.’  \nA shadow came over Ursula’s face.‘I might,’ she said. ‘But I’m not sure.’  \nAgain Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted tobe quite definite.  \n‘You don’t think one needs the EXPERIENCE of having been married?’ she asked.  \n‘Do you think it need BE an experience?’ replied Ursula.  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 3  \n‘Bound to be, in some way or other,’ said Gudrun, coolly. ‘Possibly undesirable, but bound to be an experience of some sort.’  \n‘Not really,’ said Ursula. ‘More likely to be the end of experience.’  \nGudrun sat very still, to attend to this.  \n‘Of course,’ she said, ‘there’s THAT to consider.’ This brought the conversation to a close. Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing. Ursula stitched absorbedly.  \n‘You wouldn’t consider a good offer?’ asked Gudrun.  \n‘I think I’ve rejected several,’ said Ursula.  \n‘REALLY!’ Gudrun flushed dark—‘But anything really worth while? Have you REALLY?’  \n‘A thousand a year, and an awfully nice man. I liked him awfully,’ said Ursula.  \n‘Really! But weren’t you fearfully tempted?’  \n‘In the abstract but not in the concrete,’ said Ursula.‘When it comes to the point, one isn’t even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I’d marry like a shot. I’m only tempted NOT to.’ The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.  \n‘Isn’t it an amazing thing,’ cried Gudrun, ‘how strong the temptation is, not to!’ They both laughed, looking at eachother. In their hearts they were frightened.  \nThere was a long pause, whilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch. The sisters were women, Ursula twenty-six, and Gudrun twenty-five. But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis  \n4 Women in Love  \nrather than of Hebe. Gudrun was very beautiful, passive, soft-skinned, soft-limbed. She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings. Her look of confidence and diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just comeback from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, and living a studio life.  \n‘I was hoping now for a man to come along,’ Gudrun said, suddenly catching her underlip between her teeth, and making a strange grimace, half sly smiling, half anguish. Ursula was afraid.  \n‘So you have come home, expecting him here?’ she laughed.  \n‘Oh my dear,’ cried Gudrun, strident, ‘I wouldn’t go out of my way to look for him. But if there did happen to come along a highly attractive individual of sufficient means—well—‘ she tailed off ironically. 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