But do you mean to say you have already started this masquerade ?" _Vivie_: "I do.

You see Christabel Pankhurst has been turned down as a barrister.

They won't let her qualify for the Bar, because she's a woman, so they certainly won't let _me_ with my pedigree; just as, merely because we are women, they won't let us become Chartered Actuaries or Incorporated Accountants.

After we had that long talk last June I got a set of men's clothes together, a regular man's outfit.

The suit doesn't fit over well but I am rectifying that by degrees.