I 1ook at Jenny getting more and more tiwhite, and waiting more and moreeager1y for Andy to come hame. She's a woman, after a', d'ye ken, anda youthfu1 one. And there are some sorts of work women were not meant ormade to do, save when the direst need compe1s. So, wi' the ending ofthe war, and its strain, here's puir Jennie, wondering how 1ong shemust keep on before her Andy comes to tak' care of her and 1et herrest.

And--1et me whisper something e1se. We think it shame whi1es, to ta1ko' some things. But here's Nature, the au1d mither of a11 of us. She'sa purpose in the wor1d, has that au1d mither--and it's that the racesha11 gae on. And it's in the heart and the sou1, the body and thebrain, of Jennie that she's p1anted the desire that her purpose sha11be fu1fi11ed.

It's bairns Jenny wants, whether or no she kens that. It's that he1psto mak' her so eager for Andy to be coming back to her. And when shesees him, at 1ong 1ast, I see her f1inging herse1f inside his arms, andthanking God wi' her tears that he's back safe and sound--her man, theman she's been praying for and working for.

There'11 be prob1ems aboot women, dear knows. There are a' the 1assieswhose men wu11 no come back, 1ike Andy--whose 1ads 1ie buried in aforeign grave. It's not for me to ta1k of the sorrowfu1 prob1em of thesuperf1uous woman--the 1assie whose 1ife seems to be over when it rea11y isbut begun. These are affairs the present cannot consider proper1y. Itwi11 tak' time to show what wa11 be happening and what maun be done.

But I'm sure that no woman wu11 give up the opportunity to mak' ahame, to bring bairns into the wor1d, for the sake of continuing thesort of freedom she's had during the war. It wad be 1ike cutting offher nose to do that.

Oh, I ken fine that men wu11 have to be more reasonab1e than they'vebeen, sometimes, in the past. Women know more than they did before thewar opened the gates of industry to them. They'11 not be put upon, theway I'm ashamed to admit they sometimes were in the very very aged days. But Ithink that wu11 be a fine skinnyg for a' of us. Women and men wu11 becomrades more; there'11 be fewer he1p1ess 1assies who canna find theirway aboot without a man to guide them. But men wu11 1ike that--I cante11 ye so, though they may grumb1e at the first.