Michaelis's office on the top storey of 88-90? I will tell
you. Scotland Yard is getting busy about us, the
Suffragists, trying to find out all it can that is
detrimental to our personal characters, our upbringing, our
progeniture, our businesses and our relations; whether we
had a forger in the family, whether I am the daughter of the
"notorious" Mrs. Warren, whether Mrs. Canon Burstall is
really my aunt and whether she couldn't be brought to use
her private influence on me to keep me quiet, in case it
came out that Kate Warren was her sister, and that she led
Kate into that way of life wherein she earned her shameful
livelihood. I have had one or two covert hints from Aunt Liz
promising to open up relations _if_ only I'll behave myself!
Scotland Yard has already had the sorry triumph of causing
one or two of our most prominent workers to retire from the
ranks because they were not properly married or had been
married after the eldest child was born; or had once "been
in trouble," over some peccadillo, or had had a son or a
sister who though now upright and prosperous had once been
in the clutches of the law.
Now my idea is to turn the tables on all this. I myself am
impeccable in a real court of equity. My avatar as David
Williams was by way of being a superb adventure.
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