You see, I loved her so much that even the restrictions she so firmly established left me much happiness.

We were lovers, and there is surely delight enough in that.
Do not imagine that these young women utterly refused "the Great New Hope," as they called it, that of dual parentage.

For that they had agreed to marry us, though the marrying part of it was a concession to our prejudices rather than theirs.

To them the process was the holy thing--and they meant to keep it holy.
But so far only Celis, her blue eyes swimming in happy tears, her heart lifted with that tide of race-motherhood which was their supreme passion, could with ineffable joy and pride announce that she was to be a mother.

"The New Motherhood" they called it, and the whole country knew.