It satisfied her for a while.

She had the rare gift of public speaking, and enjoyed her triumphs.

She was temperate, reasonable; persuasive rather than aggressive; feeling her audience as she went, never losing touch with them.

She had the magnetism that comes of sympathy.

Medical students who came intending to tell her to go home and mind the baby, remained to wonder if man really was the undoubted sovereign of the world, born to look upon woman as his willing subject; to wonder whether under some unwritten whispered law it might not be the other way about.