"The human race, as it is at present, is a disgrace to the world it inhabits. We women have now decided to repeople the earth scientifically with a race as wholesome in body as our instruction shall render it in mind. Those among us women who are adjudged physically and mentally perfect for this great and sacred work have pledged ourselves to the sacrifice—pro bono publico.
"We shall pick out, from your degenerate sex, such physically perfect individuals as chance to remain; we shall regard our marriages with them as purely scientific and cold-blooded affairs; we have begun, for the purposes of re-populating the world by capturing four symmetrical young men. You are the fifth. The Regents of the New Race University will select for you several girls who, theoretically, are best qualified to become the mothers of your——"
"Stop!" shouted Langdon, tearing violently at the net. "I don't want you to talk that way to me!"
"What way?"
"You know perfectly well," he retorted, blushing vividly. "I won't stand it!"
"What a slave to prudery and smug convention you are," she observed with amused contempt. "Nobody in the University is going to shock your modesty."
"Well, what are they going to do?"
"Turn you loose in the preserve after the Regents have inspected you."
"And then?"
"Oh, I suppose two or three girls will be selected."