That is, right off.
ROGER
He kept on seeing her? With mother's knowledge?
MARGARET
Yes. Your mother liked her.
ROGER
Well, if women aren't the strangest things!
MARGARET
Yes, they are. Some of them. Fortunately. But you see how wrong you were,
Roger?
ROGER
How was I wrong?
MARGARET
About this unfitness--this survival.
ROGER
On the contrary. It only proves it.
MARGARET
No, it doesn't. I've been thinking, too ... about saving people from
themselves, and all that. You say it's the law of life, and we can't go
beyond life.
ROGER
No, we can't. I still say it.
MARGARET
Then what about your mother? What about all women who--
ROGER
About mother?
MARGARET
Yes. Wasn't her love a part of life? And didn't she keep on loving him in
spite of everything? Is that love blind and foolish--something for your
old evolution to get rid of?
ROGER
I never thought of it. No, of course we don't want to get rid of
_that_--but even so, she didn't save him.
MARGARET
She didn't know about it until lately--thanks to you. If she had known
sooner--and anyhow, you don't know--Of course, she couldn't have saved him
directly.
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