You seem to think every woman ought to behave as shamefully as you did.
JANET
(grimly)
No, Hester. I don’t think that. To do as I did needs pluck and brains—and five hundred pounds. Everything most women haven’t got, poor things. So they must marry or remain childless. You must marry—the next curate. I suppose the Bulsteads will buy Mr. Brown a living as he’s marrying the plainest of the daughters. It’s the least they can do. But that’s no reason why I should marry unless I choose.
MRS. CLOUSTON
Well, I’ve never heard of anything so disgraceful. I thought Janet at least had the grace to be ashamed of what she did!
JANET
(genuinely astonished)
Ashamed? Ashamed of wanting to have a child? What on earth were women created for, Aunt Harriet, if not to have children?
MRS. CLOUSTON To marry and have children.