"Ahh," Urquhart says, nodding. "We didn't know that in my time. Or perhaps some of the old wise-women knew, but they were keeping quiet."

Beat.

Archly, "Due to the threat of the church burning them as witches for knowing that sort of thing, I guess."

She leans over to kiss Tanya.

"So if a woman just wants children, she has to find the right five days, and get her men then, and the rest of the time, she's free for pleasure. Apart from the part where the church tells her it's sin, too."

Urquhart doesn't believe in sin. At all.