He seems to have accused Frieda of wanting to go back (in every sense): of "chasing ... those Weekley children" (something he felt "I can't stomach"); while he himself, when it came to it, could not bear the thought of "England and home and my people" - or even of the Fontana Vecchia, which he had loved so much. He felt caught between "the old world which I loved" (but now used the past tense about) and the new world, "which means nothing to me"; the situation of Richard Lovat Somers had become very real to him, and simply returning to Europe was not going to change that. There followed a few fairly miserable months of travel for Lawrence, some of it once again in the company of the Danish painters: he felt at one point "as if I should wander over the brink of existence"
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