94.) Arrived at the Lilacs, Vivie took up for a brief spell the life of an ordinary young woman of the well-to-do middle class, seriously interested in the suffrage question but non-militant.

She attended several of Honoria's or Mrs.Fawcett's suffrage parties or public meetings and occasionally spoke and spoke well.

She also went over to Brussels twice in 1912 to keep in touch with her mother.

Mrs.
Warren had had one or two slight warnings that a life of pleasure saps the strongest constitution.[1] She lived now mainly at her farm, the Villa Beau-sejour, and only occasionally occupied her _appartement_ in the Rue Royale.

She must have been about fifty-nine in the spring of 1912, and was beginning to "soigner son salut," that is to say to take stock of her past life, apologize for it to herself and see how she could atone reasonably for what she had done wrong.