![]() ![]() ![]() The two discuss the possibility of her conceiving a child with another man, giving her a baby and Sir Clifford an heir. Sir Clifford confronts Constance with a rumor that she is pregnant, which she denies. As he gets more comfortable with her, their lovemaking becomes more tender and intense, one day cavorting naked in the rain and decorating each other with flowers. He is uneasy afterwards, but Constance feels liberated and starts meeting him secretly for more sessions. Parkin comforts her and, with her mute assent, has brief forceful sex. When taking hold of a recently hatched pheasant chick, the tremor of new life in her hand sets Constance weeping uncontrollably. She starts going to the hut regularly, taking an interest in the taciturn Parkin's work. He says he does not have one, so Constance asks Parkin, who is reluctant but as an employee has to, in the end, produce one. Feeling relaxed there, she resolves to visit more often and asks her husband for a duplicate key. Parkin grudgingly lets her rest on the steps of the hut, where she falls asleep. Told that the first daffodils are blooming in the woods, she ventures out to pick some, but the effort tires her and she has to sit. She is falling into a depression, for which the doctor says there is no physical cause, urging her to take charge of her life and not give in as her mother did. Approaching the hut in the woods where he works, she sees him stripped to the waist and washing himself the sight perturbs her. One day the maid is ill and Constance goes to see Parkin, the gamekeeper, about some pheasants for the table. ![]() Constance tries to be a good wife, but he is distant and her life is empty. Severely wounded in World War I, he is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. In an English country house, Sir Clifford Chatterley lives with his wife Constance. ![]()
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