The man glanced up at him, half inimical, half recognising.
“Why don’t you want it for yourselves, if you’ve just bought it?” asked the woman coolly. “’Taint good enough for you, now you’ve had a look at it. Frightened it’s got something in it, eh?”
She was looking at Ursula, admiringly, but with some resentment.
“I’d never thought of that,” said Birkin. “But no, the wood’s too thin everywhere.”
“You see,” said Ursula, her face luminous and pleased. “We are just going to get married, and we thought we’d buy things. Then we decided, just now, that we wouldn’t have furniture, we’d go abroad.”
The full-built, slightly blowsy city girl looked at the fine face of the other woman, with appreciation. They appreciated each other. The youth stood aside, his face expressionless and timeless, the thin line of the black moustache drawn strangely suggestive over his rather wide, closed mouth. He was impassive, abstract, like some dark suggestive presence, a gutter-presence.
“It’s all right to be some folks,” said the city girl, turning to her own young man. He did not look at her, but he smiled with the lower part of his face, putting his head aside in an odd gesture of assent. His eyes were unchanging, glazed with darkness.
“Cawsts something to chynge your mind,” he said, in an incredibly low accent.
“Only ten shillings this time,” said Birkin.
The man looked up at him with a grimace of a smile, furtive, unsure.