It's useful to keep her pups warm." "Yes." "Why, you know," Aaron turned excitedly in the bed, "they look on a man as if he was nothing but an instrument to get and rear children.

If you have anything to do with a woman, she thinks it's because you want to get children by her.

And I'm damned if it is.

I want my own pleasure, or nothing: and children be damned." "Ah, women--THEY must be loved, at any price!" said Lilly.

"And if you just don't want to love them--and tell them so--what a crime." "A crime!" said Aaron.