Why should a woman have children and a man have none?

ENID.

But a man has children!

DOCTOR.

Only vicariously.

VICTORIA.

Here’s Dr. Mary!

[Rushing up to Doctor. Enid has rushed up to the other side of her.

DOCTOR [pragmatically].

But I am not without hope that, when the attention of science is directed to the unequal incidence of the burden of maternity, some method of re-adjustment may be devised.