"We were talking about children," Adrian said flatly. "Theoretical ones in the future, and her expectations compared to mine, and from there how your parents expect you to marry and give them grandchildren with Penelope. Anyone who's ever seen you with children knows better than to think you don't like them. Whether or not you marry a woman--and I'm not such a fool as to think no man with attraction to his own sex does--you seem unlikely to sire children in the traditional way. Maybe there's one of those cultural differences I enjoy dissecting with Miranda wrapped up in that, but if I had gone eyebrows up there, and the question of why I think you're not likely to have children came up--well, you and I would have had a different conversation, and before now."