An interview between Rossiter and the Home Secretary nearly ended in a personal assault.

All the officials concerned refused to see Honoria, who almost had a serious quarrel with her husband, the latter averring that Vivien Warren had only got what she asked for.

Vivien was therefore taken to Holloway to serve her sentence as a common felon.
"Didn't she hunger-strike to force the Authorities to accord her better prison treatment ?" She did.

But she was very soon, and with extra business-like brutality, forcibly fed; and that and the previous starvation made her so ill that she spent weeks in hospital.

Here it was very plainly hinted to her that between hunger-striking and forcible feeding she might very soon die; and that in her case the Government were prepared to stand the racket.
Moreover she heard by some intended channel about this time that scores of imprisoned suffragists were hunger-striking to secure her better treatment and were endangering if not their lives at any rate their future health and validity.