When she returned from an autumn visit to Villa Beau-sejour she found there had been a split between the "Peths" and the "Panks." The Girondist section of the women suffragists had separated from those who could see no practical policy to win the Vote but a regime of Terrorism--mild terrorism, it is true--somewhat that of the Curate in _The Private Secretary_ who at last told his persecutors he should _really have to give them a good hard knock_.

The Peths drew back before the Pankish programme (mild as this would seem, to us of Bolshevik days and of Irish insurrection).

_Votes for Women_ returned to the control of the Pethick Lawrences, and the Pankhurst party to which Vivie belonged were to start a new press organ, _The Suffragette_.
The Panks, it seemed, had a more acute fore-knowledge than the Peths.

The latter had felt they were forcing an open door; that the Liberal Ministry would eventually squeeze a measure of Female Suffrage into the long-discussed Franchise Bill; and that too much militancy was disgusting the general public with the Woman's cause.
The former declared all along that Women were going to be done in the eye, because all the militancy hitherto had got very little in man's way, had only excited smiles, and shoulder-shrugs.

Ministers of the Crown in 1912 had compared the hoydenish booby-traps and bloodless skirmishes of the Suffragettes with the grim fighting, the murders, burnings, mob-rule of the 1830's, when MEN were agitating for Reform; or the mutilation of cattle, the assassinations, dynamite outrages, gun-powder plots, bombs and boycotting of the long drawn-out Irish agitation for Home Rule.