NANCY (adoringly). You can do it, my man. And oh! how proud I shall be of helping you.

BROXOPP. And the time will come when the world will be full of Broxopp Babies! I look into the future and I see—millions of them!

NANCY (coming very close). Jim, when I am all alone, then sometimes I look into the future, too.

BROXOPP (indulgently). And what do you see, Nancy?

NANCY. Sometimes I seem to see one little Broxopp baby.

[15]BROXOPP (with a shout). Nancy! You mean——

NANCY. Would you like to have a little one of your very own, Jim?

BROXOPP. My darling! It only needed this! (He takes her in his arms.)

NANCY. My husband!

BROXOPP (releasing her). A Broxopp—to carry on the name! A little Broxopp! Nancy, he shall be the first, the pioneer of all the Broxopp Babies! (Carried away) I see him—everywhere—sitting in his little vest——