"Henry, is it true that if Mabel had had children she'd have been all right?"
"Yes," he said curtly, wondering what on earth had made her ask him that.
"It's killing her then—not having them?"
"That," he said, "and the desire to have them."
"How cruel it is, how detestable—that she should have this——"
"It's Nature's revenge, Jane, on herself."
"And she was so sweet, she would have loved them——"
The Doctor brooded. He had a thing to say to her.
"Jinny, if you'd put it away—altogether—that writing of yours—you'd be a different woman."
"Different?"