I'm quite content to leave all that to the menfolk." _Vivie_: "Quite so.

In your position no doubt I should do the same; but you see I haven't any menfolk.

There is my mother, but she prefers to live abroad, and as she is comfortably off she can employ servants to look after her." (This hint of wealth a little reassured Mrs.Rossiter, who believed most Suffragettes to be adventuresses.) "So, as I have no ties I prefer to give myself up to the service of women in general.

When they have the vote and other privileges of men, then of course I can attend to my private interests and pursuits--mathematical calculations, insurance risks--" _Mrs.Rossiter_: "It is _extraordinary_ how like your voice is to your cousin's.

If I shut my eyes I could think he was back again.
Not," (she added hastily) "that he has not, no doubt, _plenty_ to do abroad.