And she turned her face to his, that was faintly bright in the light of the lantern, and they stood together in one luminous union, close together and ringed round with light, all the rest excluded.
Birkin looked away, and went to light Ursula's second lantern.

It had a pale ruddy sea-bottom, with black crabs and sea-weed moving sinuously under a transparent sea, that passed into flamy ruddiness above.
'You've got the heavens above, and the waters under the earth,' said Birkin to her.
'Anything but the earth itself,' she laughed, watching his live hands that hovered to attend to the light.
'I'm dying to see what my second one is,' cried Gudrun, in a vibrating rather strident voice, that seemed to repel the others from her.
Birkin went and kindled it.

It was of a lovely deep blue colour, with a red floor, and a great white cuttle-fish flowing in white soft streams all over it.

The cuttle-fish had a face that stared straight from the heart of the light, very fixed and coldly intent.
'How truly terrifying!' exclaimed Gudrun, in a voice of horror.

Gerald, at her side, gave a low laugh.
'But isn't it really fearful!' she cried in dismay.
Again he laughed, and said: 'Change it with Ursula, for the crabs.' Gudrun was silent for a moment.
'Ursula,' she said, 'could you bear to have this fearful thing ?' 'I think the colouring is LOVELY,' said Ursula.
'So do I,' said Gudrun.