`No, only a complete silence,' ugg boots discount outlet said Birkin.
     `Oh,' said Ursula, vaguely, absent. Their presence was not vital to her, she was withheld, she did not take them in. It was a subtle insult that never failed to exasperate her father.
     `Mr Birkin came to speak to you, not to me,' said her father.
     `Oh, did he!' she exclaimed vaguely, as if it did not concern her. Then, recollecting herself, she turned to discount uggs for women him rather radiantly, but still quite superficially, and said: `Was it anything special?'
     `I hope so,' he said, ironically.
     `-- To propose to you, according to all accounts,' said her father.
     `Oh,' said Ursula.
     `Oh,' mocked her father, imitating her. `Have you nothing more to say?'
     She winced as if violated.
     `Did you really come to propose to me?' she asked of Birkin, as if discount ugg boots it were a joke.
     `Yes,' he said. `I suppose I came to propose.' He seemed to fight shy of the last word.
     `Did you?' she cried, with her vague radiance. He might have been saying anything whatsoever. She seemed pleased.
     `Yes,' he answered. `I wanted to -- I wanted you to agree to marry me.'
     She looked at him. His eyes were flickering ugg boots discount outlet with mixed lights, wanting something of her, yet not wanting it. She shrank a little, as if she were exposed to his eyes, and as if it were a pain to her. She darkened, her soul clouded over, she turned aside. She had been driven out of her own radiant, single world. And she dreaded contact, it was almost buy uggs online cheap unnatural to her at these times.
     `Yes,' she said vaguely, in a doubting, absent voice.
     Birkin's heart contracted swiftly, in a sudden fire of bitterness. It all meant nothing to her. He had been mistaken again. She was in some selfsatisfied world of her own. He and his hopes were accidentals, violations to her. It drove her father to a pitch discount uggs for women of mad exasperation. He had had to put up with this all his life, from her.
     `Well, what do you say?' he cried.
     She winced. Then she glanced down at her father, half-frightened, and she said:
     `I didn't speak, did I?' as if she were afraid she might have committed herself.