29/32 And if I stay, only two ways remain.... And the lawful is the better for us both...." She laid her flushed cheek against his: "Because," she said dreamily, "there is one thing of which I never thought--children.... And I don't, perhaps, exactly understand, but I realise that--such things have happened;--and that it could happen to--us." She lay silent for a while, her fingers restless on his shoulder; then she spoke again in the same dreamy voice of a half-awakened child: "Each for the other's sake is not enough. It must be broader, wider, more generous ... it must be for the sake of all.... |