‘No,’ she said, ‘love includes everything.’

‘Sentimental cant,’ he replied. ‘You want the state of chaos, that’s all. It is ultimate nihilism, this freedom-in-love business, this freedom which is love and love which is freedom. As a matter of fact, if you enter into a pure unison, it is irrevocable, and it is never pure till it is irrevocable. And when it is irrevocable, it is one way, like the path of a star.’

‘Ha!’ she cried bitterly. ‘It is the old dead morality.’

‘No,’ he said, ‘it is the law of creation. One is committed. One must commit oneself to a conjunction with the other — for ever. But it is not selfless — it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity —