It was rumoured that Quarrier would reconsider the position he had publicly assumed, and stand forth as an advocate of Female Suffrage.

For such extremes Polterham was not prepared.
"Mrs.Wade asks me to go and have tea with her to-morrow," Lilian announced one morning, showing a note.

"Shall I, or not ?" "You would like to ?" "Not if you think it unwise." "Hang it!--we can't be slaves.

Go by all means, and refresh your mind." At three o'clock on the day of invitation Lilian alighted from her brougham at Pear-tree Cottage.

It was close upon the end of February; the declining sun shot a pleasant glow across the landscape, and in the air reigned a perfect stillness.