She realized the opportunities that lay before this Woman's Office for General Inquiries, established in the closing years of the nineteenth century--this business that before Woman's enfranchisement nibbled discreetly at the careers and the openings for profit-making hitherto rigidly reserved for Man.

She wasn't going to let Honoria down.

Honoria, she realized, was in herself equivalent to many thousands of pounds in capital.

Her reputation was flawless.

She was known to and esteemed by a host of women of the upper middle class.