"You might go on and be very happy. And as for the--for his wife, it won't

do her any harm. It's only--if there are children."

"I know. I've thought of that. But I'm so crazy for children!"

"Exactly. So you should be. But when they come, and you cannot give them

a name--don't you see? I'm not preaching morality. God forbid that I--But

no happiness is built on a foundation of wrong. It's been tried before,

Tillie, and it doesn't pan out."

He was conscious of a feeling of failure when he left her at last. She had

acquiesced in what he said, knew he was right, and even promised to talk to

him again before making a decision one way or the other. But against his

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abstractions of conduct and morality there was pleading in Tillie the

hungry mother-heart; law and creed and early training were fighting against

the strongest instinct of the race. It was a losing battle.




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