well, you know where it is: walls may have ears ...

your time for public testimony hasn't come yet ...

we'll let you know fast enough when it has and _you_ won't flinch, _I'm_ quite sure..." As a matter of fact, though Vivie's intelligence and inventiveness, her knowledge of criminal law, of lawyers and of city business, her wide education, her command of French (improved by the frequent trips to Brussels--where indeed she deposited securely in her mother's keeping some of the funds and the more remarkable documents of the Suffrage cause) and her possession of monetary supplies were not to be despised: as a figure-head, she was of doubtful value.
There was always that mother in the background.

If Vivie was in court for a suffrage offence of a grave character the prosecuting Counsel would be sure to rake up the "notorious Mrs.Warren" and drag in the White Slave Traffic, to bewilder a jury and throw discredit on the militant side of the Suffrage cause.

Of course if the true story of Vivie were fully known, she would rise triumphant from such a recital....