Therefore she would continue her schoolwork with her pupils as long
as the school would allow her; and when that became impossible,
would fall back upon literature.
One other question Alan ventured gently to raise,--the question of
children. Fools always put that question, and think it a crushing
one. Alan was no fool, yet it puzzled him strangely. He did not
see for himself how easy is the solution; how absolutely Herminia's
plan leaves the position unaltered. But Herminia herself was as
modestly frank on the subject as on every other. It was a moral
and social point of the deepest importance; and it would be wrong
of them to rush into it without due consideration. She had duly
considered it. She would give her children, should any come, the
unique and glorious birthright of being the only human beings ever
born into this world as the deliberate result of a free union,
contracted on philosophical and ethical principles. Alan hinted
certain doubts as to their up-bringing and education. There, too,
Herminia was perfectly frank.
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