"Why not?"
"Plague take it."
"She would make one very happy."
"She would make many very happy."
"But is it not always a question of many?"
"Lord Mohun, you are right. With regard to women, we have always the leavings of others. Has any one ever had a beginning?"
"Adam, perhaps."
"Not he."
"Then Satan."
"My dear lord," concluded Lewis de Duras, "Adam only lent his name. Poor dupe! He endorsed the human race. Man was begotten on the woman by the devil."