The W.S.P.U.
dared not relax in its militancy lest Ministers should think the struggle waning and Woman already tiring of her claims.

The vaunted Manhood Suffrage Bill had been introduced by an anti-woman-suffrage Quaker Minister and its Second reading been proposed by an equally anti-feminist Secretary of State--this was in June-July, 1912; and no member of the Cabinet had risen to say a word in favour of the Women's claims.

Still, something might be done in Committee, in the autumn Session--if there were one--or in the following year.

There was a simmering in the Suffragist ranks rather than any alarming explosion.

In March, before Vivie went to Brussels, Mrs.Pankhurst had carried out a window-smashing raid on Bond Street and Regent Street and the clubs of Piccadilly, during which among the two hundred and nineteen arrests there were brought to light as "revolutionaries" two elderly women surgeons of great distinction and one female Doctor of Music.