"Damn this laboratory marriage! damn this laboratory love!
"Penton experiments, and Penton experiments ... on his cat, his dog, himself, me—you, if you'd let him ... everybody! let him marry Humanity if he loves it so much."
"But what did you do?"
"I caught myself running away from them, and sobbing."
"And what did they do?"
"'Hildreth, for God's sake!' Mubby called, 'what's the matter now?' in that bland, exasperating tone of his,—that injured, self-righteous, I'm-sacrificing-myself-for-mankind tone—"
I had to laugh at her exact mimicry....
I stroked her hair....
"I'm glad you came to Eden, John Gregory. You might be a poet, but you have some human sense in you, too....