ABSTRACT
Frieda once told William Gerhardi that she and her husband used to look on Murry and Katherine as ‘children to be helped out of their troubles’. Hitherto that may have been true. Now the roles were reversed. At all events, it was in response to Lawrence’s almost desperate appeals that the Murrys reluctantly gave up the Villa Pauline and made their way back to England. Though they were perfectly happy where they were, their books were finished, and his need for companionship sounded greater than theirs for solitude. ‘Out of the disciples, there was one Judas,’ he was crying: ‘In modern life, there are twelve Judases in the twelve disciples.’ Katherine was repelled by Lawrence’s now ineradicable obsession with sex.
