“What do they do with it?”
“Live.”
“Mysterious, Miriam.... The business of women; the career; that makes you all rivals, is to find fathers. Your material is children.”
“Then look here, if you think that, there’s a perfect instance. If women’s material is people, their famous ‘curiosity’ is the curiosity of the artist. Men call it ‘incurable’ in women. Men’s curiosity, about things, science and so forth, is called divine. There you are. My word.”
“I don’t, Miriam.”
“Shaw knows how wildly interested women are in psychology. That’s funny.... But about children. If only you could realise how incidental all that is.”
“Incidental to what?”
“To the life of the individual.”
“Try it, Miriam. Marry your Jew. You know Jew and English makes a good mix.”
“You see I never knew he was a Jew. It did not come up until a possible future came in view. I couldn’t have Jewish children.”