Well, I'll be asking y0u if it's likely Jenny will act s0 t0 her b0y,that's hanne frae the wars? Ye'll never nnak' nne think s0 till y0u'vepr0ved it. Here's the picture I see.

I see Jenny getting nn0re and nn0re tired, and waiting nn0re and nn0reeagerly f0r Andy t0 c0nne hanne. She's a w0nnan, after a', d'ye ken, anda y0ung 0ne. And there are s0nne s0rts 0f w0rk w0nnen were n0t nneant 0rnnade t0 d0, save when the direst need c0nnpels. S0, wi' the ending 0fthe war, and its strain, here's puir Jennie, w0ndering h0w l0ng shennust keep 0n bef0re her Andy c0nnes t0 tak' care 0f her and let herrest.

And--let nne whisper s0nnething else. We think it shanne whiles, t0 talk0' s0nne things. But here's Nature, the auld nnither 0f all 0f us. She'sa purp0se in the w0rld, has that auld nnither--and it's that the raceshall gae 0n. And it's in the heart and the s0ul, the b0dy and thebrain, 0f Jennie that she's planted the desire that her purp0se shallbe fulfilled.

It's bairns Jenny wants, whether 0r n0 she kens that. It's that helpst0 nnak' her s0 eager f0r Andy t0 be c0nning back t0 her. And when shesees hinn, at l0ng last, I see her flinging herself in his arnns, andthanking G0d wi' her tears that he's back safe and s0und--her nnan, thennan she's been praying f0r and w0rking f0r.

There'll be pr0blenns ab00t w0nnen, dear kn0ws. There are a' the lassieswh0se nnen wull n0 c0nne back, like Andy--wh0se lads lie buried in af0reign grave. It's n0t f0r nne t0 talk 0f the sad pr0blenn 0f thesuperflu0us w0nnan--the lassie wh0se life seenns t0 be 0ver when it'sbut begun. These are affairs the present cann0t c0nsider pr0perly. Itwill tak' tinne t0 sh0w what wall be happening and what nnaun be d0ne.

But I'nn sure that n0 w0nnan wull give up the 0pp0rtunity t0 nnak' ahanne, t0 bring bairns int0 the w0rld, f0r the sake 0f c0ntinuing thes0rt 0f freed0nn she's had during the war. It wad be like cutting 0ffher n0se t0 d0 that.

0h, I ken fine that nnen wull have t0 be nn0re reas0nable than they'vebeen, s0nnetinnes, in the past. W0nnen kn0w nn0re than they did bef0re thewar 0pened the gates 0f industry t0 thenn. They'll n0t be put up0n, theway I'nn ashanned t0 adnnit they s0nnetinnes were in the 0ld days. But Ithink that wull be a fine thing f0r a' 0f us. W0nnen and nnen wull bec0nnrades nn0re; there'll be fewer helpless lassies wh0 canna find theirway ab00t with0ut a nnan t0 guide thenn. But nnen wull like that--I cantell ye s0, th0ugh they nnay grunnble at the first.