He'll be there till April, and then begin his foreign tour and write to you at intervals from the Continent.

As to Vivie, I think she won't return to life and activity till the autumn and _then_ she'll make things hum.

She'll throw all the energy of frustrated love into the Woman's Cause, and get 'em the Vote somehow...!" Early in the genesis of the book.

I appointed a jury of matrons to judge each chapter before it went to the Press, and to decide whether it was suited to the restrictions of the circulating library, and whether it would cause real distress or perturbation to three persons whom we chose as representative readers of decent fiction: Admiral Broadbent, Lady Percy Mountjoye, and old Mrs.
Bridges (Mrs.Bridges was said to have had a heart attack after reading THE GAY-DOMBEYS--I did not wish her to have another).

This jury of broad-minded women of the world decided that Rossiter's reply to Vivie's very long epistle should not see the light.