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And
the
authorities
felt
ridiculous
,
and
behaved
in
a
rather
ridiculous
fashion
,
and
it
was
all
a
mad
hatter
’
s
tea
-
party
for
a
while
.
Till
things
developed
over
there
,
and
Lloyd
George
came
to
save
the
situation
over
here
.
And
this
surpassed
even
ridicule
,
the
flippant
young
laughed
no
more
.
In
1916
Herbert
Chatterley
was
killed
,
so
Clifford
became
heir
.
He
was
terrified
even
of
this
.
His
importance
as
son
of
Sir
Geoffrey
,
and
child
of
Wragby
,
was
so
ingrained
in
him
,
he
could
never
escape
it
.
And
yet
he
knew
that
this
too
,
in
the
eyes
of
the
vast
seething
world
,
was
ridiculous
.
Now
he
was
heir
and
responsible
for
Wragby
.
Was
that
not
terrible
?
and
also
splendid
and
at
the
same
time
,
perhaps
,
purely
absurd
?
Sir
Geoffrey
would
have
none
of
the
absurdity
.
He
was
pale
and
tense
,
withdrawn
into
himself
,
and
obstinately
determined
to
save
his
country
and
his
own
position
,
let
it
be
Lloyd
George
or
who
it
might
.
So
cut
off
he
was
,
so
divorced
from
the
England
that
was
really
England
,
so
utterly
incapable
,
that
he
even
thought
well
of
Horatio
Bottomley
.
Sir
Geoffrey
stood
for
England
and
Lloyd
George
as
his
forebears
had
stood
for
England
and
St
George
:
and
he
never
knew
there
was
a
difference
.
So
Sir
Geoffrey
felled
timber
and
stood
for
Lloyd
George
and
England
,
England
and
Lloyd
George
.
And
he
wanted
Clifford
to
marry
and
produce
an
heir
.
Clifford
felt
his
father
was
a
hopeless
anachronism
.
But
wherein
was
he
himself
any
further
ahead
,
except
in
a
wincing
sense
of
the
ridiculousness
of
everything
,
and
the
paramount
ridiculousness
of
his
own
position
?
For
willy
-
nilly
he
took
his
baronetcy
and
Wragby
with
the
last
seriousness
.
The
gay
excitement
had
gone
out
of
the
war
.
.
.
dead
.
Too
much
death
and
horror
.
A
man
needed
support
and
comfort
.
A
man
needed
to
have
an
anchor
in
the
safe
world
.
A
man
needed
a
wife
.
The
Chatterleys
,
two
brothers
and
a
sister
,
had
lived
curiously
isolated
,
shut
in
with
one
another
at
Wragby
,
in
spite
of
all
their
connexions
.
A
sense
of
isolation
intensified
the
family
tie
,
a
sense
of
the
weakness
of
their
position
,
a
sense
of
defencelessness
,
in
spite
of
,
or
because
of
,
the
title
and
the
land
.
They
were
cut
off
from
those
industrial
Midlands
in
which
they
passed
their
lives
.
And
they
were
cut
off
from
their
own
class
by
the
brooding
,
obstinate
,
shut
-
up
nature
of
Sir
Geoffrey
,
their
father
,
whom
they
ridiculed
,
but
whom
they
were
so
sensitive
about
.
The
three
had
said
they
would
all
live
together
always
.
But
now
Herbert
was
dead
,
and
Sir
Geoffrey
wanted
Clifford
to
marry
.
Sir
Geoffrey
barely
mentioned
it
:
he
spoke
very
little
.
But
his
silent
,
brooding
insistence
that
it
should
be
so
was
hard
for
Clifford
to
bear
up
against
.
But
Emma
said
No
!
She
was
ten
years
older
than
Clifford
,
and
she
felt
his
marrying
would
be
a
desertion
and
a
betrayal
of
what
the
young
ones
of
the
family
had
stood
for
.
