I should like to stop all the painting and writing and music until this kind of thing exists no longer.' Don't you feel," she wound up, addressing Helen, "that life's a perpetual conflict ?" Helen considered for a moment.

"No," she said.

"I don't think I do." There was a pause, which was decidedly uncomfortable.

Mrs.Dalloway then gave a little shiver, and asked whether she might have her fur cloak brought to her.

As she adjusted the soft brown fur about her neck a fresh topic struck her.
"I own," she said, "that I shall never forget the _Antigone_.