LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
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"Will you eat anything?" he said.
"No! Only lend me a comb."
She followed him into the scullery, and combed her hair before the handbreadth of mirror by the back door. Then she was ready to go.
She stood in the little front garden, looking at the dewy flowers, the grey bed of pinks in bud already.
"I would like to have all the rest of the world disappear," she said, "and live with you here."
"It won't disappear," he said.
They went almost in silence through the lovely dewy wood. But they were together in a world of their own.
It was bitter to her to go on to Wragby.
"I want soon to come and live with you altogether," she said as she left him.
He smiled unanswering.
She got home quietly and unremarked, and went up to her room.
