Gwen: ... It doesn’t frighten me ... really ... not if you stop to think ... you needn’t have a baby, need you?
John: Nearly everybody, in our class, limits their families.
Gwen: If you make up your mind it’s not wrong to love without having children, it’s awfully weak to change your mind just because someone else has one by mistake, isn’t it?
John: That’s true.
Gwen: But, Jacko ... you know ... all the same ... the people who are against you would pick on Rosie; they’d say, there’s a girl with her life ruined, and her baby’s life ruined; and if you had your way, there’d be more and more like her....
John: Fools!!
Gwen: Yes, but what’s the answer, Jacko?
[She speaks, and listens, always, with a simple direct eagerness for understanding, and points of view.
John: The answer!
Gwen: Yes.