Then the Pussum took her place, and Gerald sat next to her.

They heard the young Russian giving orders to the driver, then they were all seated in the dark, crowded close together, Halliday groaning and leaning out of the window.

They felt the swift, muffled motion of the car.
The Pussum sat near to Gerald, and she seemed to become soft, subtly to infuse herself into his bones, as if she were passing into him in a black, electric flow.

Her being suffused into his veins like a magnetic darkness, and concentrated at the base of his spine like a fearful source of power.

Meanwhile her voice sounded out reedy and nonchalant, as she talked indifferently with Birkin and with Maxim.