"No, not just the same. I want her to stay and she won't. She says it wouldn't be fair to you."
"But—if she only would, that would make it all so easy. You see, I could look after you, and she could look after them."
"You don't want to be bored with them?"
"You know that isn't what I mean. I don't want them to suffer."
"Why should they suffer?" There was some irritation in his tone.
"Because I don't think, Robert, I'm really fit to bring up children."
"I think you are. And I don't mean anybody else to bring them up. If you're my wife, Kitty, you're their mother."
"And they're to be mine as well as yours?"
"As much yours as you can make them, dear."
"Oh, how you trust me. That's what makes me so afraid. And—do you think they'll really love me?"