Chapter 8 Summary

Connie remembers the gamekeeper for the first time since the onset of her depression. She goes for a walk in the woods. She comes across Mellors in a small hut where he is setting up cages for breeding pheasants. Connie likes the hut and asks him to have a spare key made so that she may go there whenever she wishes to. She is annoyed because he talks to her in the Derby vernacular.

When Connie returns home, she questions Clifford about Mellors again, and this time she learns that he left his wife in 1915. He joined the army and was sent out to India. There, an Indian colonel made him a lieutenant.

Connie meets Mellors again some days later, and he gives her a key to the hut. She becomes angry with him again for speaking to her in the vernacular, and...