d UNA and then sits in the chair
allotted to him, whereupon UNA sits in hers and then GEORGE sits down].
Now, dear, what is it you have done?

UNA. Selected a husband.

[GEORGE moves a little uneasily. BRAITHEWAITE looks at GEORGE and then
speaks to UNA.]

BRAITHEWAITE. You mean?

UNA [pointing to GEORGE]. Him! [GEORGE rises in discomfiture.] Do sit
down. We're all sitting now, you see. [GEORGE brings himself to sit down
again.]

BRAITHEWAITE. But, my dear----

UNA. Now don't say a word until you hear the whole story. You read that
article by Shaw in the Metropolitan, didn't you? I did. You remember
what he wrote? "The best eugenic guide is the sex attraction--the Voice
of Nature." He thinks the trouble is at present that we dare not marry
out of our own sphere. But I'll show you exactly what he says. [She
fusses in her handbag and pulls out a sheet of a magazine which she
unfolds as she says:] I always carry the article with me. It's so
stimulating.

BRAITHEWAITE [protesting]. You're not going to read me a whole Shaw
article, are you? It's five o'clock now and we've a dinner date at
eight, dear.

UNA. It's a Shaw article, not a Shaw preface. However, I'll only read
the passage I've marked. Listen. [She reads.] "I do not believe you will
ever have any improvement in the human race until you greatly widen
the area of possible sexual selection; until you make it as wide as
the numbers of the community make it. Just consider what occurs at the
present time. I walk down Oxford Street, let me say, as a young man." He
might just as well have said, "young woman," you know.

BRAITHEWAITE. And?

UNA [continues reading], "I see a woman who takes my fancy." With me it
would be a man, of course.

BRAITHEWAITE. For your purpose, of course.

UNA [continuing again]. "I fall in love with her. It would seem very
sensible in an intelligent community that I should take off my hat and
say to this lady: 'Will you excuse me; but you attract me strongly,
and if you are not already engaged, would you mind taking my name
and address and considering whether you would care to marry me?'
[BRAITHEWAITE looks uncomfortably at GEORGE who looks uncomfortable,
though amused, himself.] Now I have no such chance at present."

BRAITHEWAITE. Exactly. You see, he admits it.

UNA. Yes, but why shouldn't I have the chance? That set me thinking. I
decided he was right. I am intelligent, am I not?

BRAITHEWAITE. I refuse to commit myself, d