'I couldn't pull the trigger of the emptiest gun in the world, not if some-one were looking down the barrel.

One instinctively doesn't do it--one can't.' Gudrun was silent for some moments, in sharp disagreement.
'Of course,' she said coldly.

'If one is a woman, and grown up, one's instinct prevents one.

But I cannot see how that applies to a couple of boys playing together.' Her voice was cold and angry.
'Yes,' persisted Ursula.

At that moment they heard a woman's voice a few yards off say loudly: 'Oh damn the thing!' They went forward and saw Laura Crich and Hermione Roddice in the field on the other side of the hedge, and Laura Crich struggling with the gate, to get out.