He looked at her with a furtive apprehension in his rather prominent pale eyes.

“I shouldn’t mind, if it made no difference between us,” he said.

“No difference to what?” she asked.

“To you and me; to our love for one another. If it’s going to affect that, then I’m all against it. Why, I might even one day have a child of my own!”

She looked at him in amazement.

“I mean, it might come back to me one of these days.”

She still stared in amazement, and he was uncomfortable.

“So you would not like it if I had a child?” she said.