And pray what kind of
children will women bear when they don't want them?"
"Well, Jane, your question would stagger me, if I did not know that
Nature often skips a generation, and produces some older and finer
type."
"Highly civilized men don't want children. Lady Harlow told me so,
John."
"Well then, Jane, highly civilized men are in no danger. They need not
fear what women can do to them. They will only find women pleasant to
meet and easy to leave. I saw many, many women in the London parks and
shopping district so perverted as to be on friendly terms with dogs, and
in their homes, with cats and cockatoos, and who had no affection for
children--women who could try to understand the screams of a parrot, the
barking of a dog, but who would not tolerate the lovely patois of the
nursery. Jane, the salvation of society depends on good mothers, and if
women decline to be mothers at all, it is a shameful and dangerous
situation."
"Oh, no! Why should I, for instance, undertake the reformation of
society? I wish rather to educate and reform myself.
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