] My dear, good
people, have you stopped for one moment to consider what the result
of your proposal would be?
PEEKIN For one thing, Mr. Chilvers, the adding to the populace of
healthy children in place of the stunted and diseased abortions
that is all that these poor women, out of their scanty earnings,
can afford to present to the State.
GEOFFREY Humph! That incidentally it would undermine the whole
institution of marriage, let loose the flood-gates that at present
hold immorality in check, doesn't appear to trouble you. That the
law must be altered to press less heavily upon the woman--that the
man must be made an equal sharer in the penalty--all that goes
without saying. The remedy you propose would be a thousand times
worse than the disease.
ANNYS And meanwhile? Until you have devised this scheme [there is
a note of contempt in her voice] under which escape for the man
will be impossible?
GEOFFREY The evil must continue. As other evils have to until the
true remedy is found.
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