Honoria came round and listened, applauded, pitied, laughed and concurred.
But she was well enough on the following Tuesday after Black Friday to attend another meeting of the W.S.P.U.

at Caxton Hall, to hear one more ambiguous, tricky, many-ways-to-be-interpreted promise of the then Prime Minister.

Mrs.Pankhurst pointing out the vagueness of these assurances announced her intention then and there of going round to Downing Street to ask for a more definite wording.

Vivie and many others followed this dauntless lady.

Their visit was unexpected, the police force was small and the Suffragettes had two of the Cabinet Ministers at their mercy.