If they challenge her, she can counter with some of the most piquant scandals of the last thirty years.
My own careful study of criminology and the assiduous searchings of Albert Adams in the same direction; my mother's anecdotes of the lives of statesmen, police-magistrates, prosecuting counsel, judges, press-editors--many of whom have enjoyed her hospitality abroad--have given me numerous hints in what direction to pursue my researches.

Consequently the office of Mr.
Michaelis will be the Criminal Investigation Department of the W.S.P.U.

I feel instinctively I am touching pitch and that you will disapprove ...

but if we are to fight with clean hands, _que Messieurs les Assassins commencent_! If Scotland Yards drops slander and infamous suggestions as a weapon we will let our poisoned arrows rust in the armoury.
How _beastly_ all this is! _Why_ do they drive us to these extremes?
I know already enough to blast the characters of several among our public men.

Yet I know in so doing I should wreck the life-happiness of faithful wives, believing sisters or daughters, or bright-faced children.