59/65 To them the Vote seems the beginning of the millennium. They seem to forget that after we've _got_ the Vote we shall have another fight to be admitted as members to the House. You may be sure the men will stand out another fifty years over _that_ surrender. I alternate in my moods between the reckless fury of an Anarchist and the lassitude of Lord Rosebery. To think that I was once so elated and conceited about being a Third Wrangler...!" With the closing months of 1912, however, there was a greater tenseness, a sharpening of the struggle which once more roused Vivie to keen interest. |