The Woman. You are the sole surviving males?
Yellow Hat. We are.
The Woman. Then you may let me live. I shall not perpetuate the race.
White Heart. Do not despair; I will marry you!
Green Ears. Where are your manners? Has not Shaw taught us that women do the wooing?
Blue Face. What have we to do with Shaw? Let us be serious about frivolous matters.
Red Sword. She is not to be trusted. It is necessary for her to defend the race. Speak, woman!
The Woman. Now indeed you have given me a heavy burden. What could be brought forward as a defence for humanity? Why should anything exist?
Yellow Hat. Why, indeed? That is for you to show. For aeons life has perpetuated itself through a mere animal instinct. Yet through all that time consciousness has been growing; will has at last come into the ascendancy. Now for the first time man’s ego is really on the throne. For the first time man, with power to extinguish himself, can demand an adequate reason for his existence. And man is ready to hear the secret of the sphinx. We have come to you, madam, as the last and most perfect woman, as the final manifestation of the eternal mystery, to force you on pain of death to divulge yourself.
The Woman. But I thought mankind existed for the purpose of creating the superman.