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NANCY. I know you will, darling; that’s what I’m afraid of.

BROXOPP (carelessly). We shall have an agreement drawn up. (On fire to begin.) It will be hard work for the first year. Every penny we make will have to be used again to advertise it. (Thumping the table) But I can do it! With you helping me, Nancy, I can do it.

NANCY (adoringly). You can do it, my man. And oh! how proud I shall be of helping you.

BROXOPP. And the time will come when the world will be full of Broxopp Babies! I look into the future and I see—millions of them!

NANCY (coming very close). Jim, when I am all alone, then sometimes I look into the future, too.

BROXOPP (indulgently). And what do you see, Nancy?

NANCY. Sometimes I seem to see one little Broxopp baby.

ssss1BROXOPP (with a shout). Nancy! You mean——

NANCY. Would you like to have a little one of your very own, Jim?

BROXOPP. My darling! It only needed this! (He takes her in his arms.)

NANCY. My husband!

BROXOPP (releasing her). A Broxopp—to carry on the name! A little Broxopp! Nancy, he shall be the first, the pioneer of all the Broxopp Babies! (Carried away) I see him—everywhere—sitting in his little vest——