The Shades of Spring

In this story Lawrence returns to his relationship with Jessie Chambers at Haggs Farm, a relationship which he explores fully in his novel 'Sons and Lovers'. The hero has moved on in the world of men and is married yet cannot forget his old love. He retraces his steps to the farm hoping for what? He finds his old love attached to a physical young man who can give the girl what he could not - pure physical love and this she prefers to his more intellectual love. Chastened, he leaves the beauty of the countryside to return to the town.