] Who is bringing it in?
GEOFFREY I am.
ANNYS [Is going to speak.]
GEOFFREY [He stops her.] Oh, I'm prepared for all that--ridicule,
abuse. "Chilvers's Bill for the Better Regulation of Mrs.
Chilvers," they'll call it. I can hear their laughter. Yours
won't be among it.
ANNYS But, Geoffrey! What is the meaning? Merely to spite me,
are you going to betray a cause that you have professed belief in--
that you have fought for?
GEOFFREY Yes--if it is going to take you away from me. I want
you. No, I don't want a friend--"a fellow-worker"--some
interesting rival in well doing. I can get all that outside my
home. I want a wife. I want the woman I love to belong to me--to
be mine. I am not troubling about being up to date; I'm talking
what I feel--what every male creature must have felt since the
protoplasmic cell developed instincts. I want a woman to love--a
woman to work for--a woman to fight for--a woman to be a slave to.
But mine--mine, and nothing else. All the rest [he makes a
gesture] is talk.
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