Chapters 22-24 Summary

In Chapter 22, Ursula meets Hermione at Birkin's flat for tea, and she resents Hermione's sense of superiority, but she also pities her, since her intellect is her only possession. They discuss the love Birkin wants of a woman, and agree that he is too caught up in his ideas, but Ursula resents Hermione's limited knowledge of Birkin, since Hermione herself is incapable of understanding the type of love he requires. Hermione urges Ursula not to marry Birkin, but Ursula does not feel that Hermione has the right authority, to give her this advice. When Hermione sees the Mino, she talks to it as if it understood, as if she alone could talk to it, and Ursula resents her pushy intellectualism.

In Chapter 23, Birkin take Ursula out for a car ride, and gives her a gift of three rings, as an engagement...