it all as a matter of course. All I've given up for you you take as a
matter of course!

"All I've suffered for you you take as a matter of course ... you
_men!_"

"I didn't know what it'd be like to have a baby, or, God knows, I'd
never have had one--"

"Be quiet!" shouted Osborn. "Be quiet!"

But she raved on:

"No, I wouldn't! I wouldn't, I tell you! What do you expect of women?
You expect us to want babies and bear them in all that--hell, and be
pleased to have them; and--and to put up with begging from you for
them! And you don't care how weak we are--how our backs ache; you
don't care if the baby goes out or stays in--if _I_ go out or
stay in. It's your child, isn't it? It's not all _my_ fault we
had it, is it? There's a lucid question for _you_! Answer it!"

"I will do no such thing!" he cried angrily. "You ought to be ashamed
of yourself--a woman--a _woman_ suggesting she doesn't want a
baby!"

"I didn't say it! I suggest I don't want one of yours!"

"My God!" said Osborn, recoiling.

Marie grew ice-cold when she had said a thing that she would have