It looks as though, AT LAST, a handful of women are soon to win the vote. The news was announced at a mammoth meeting at Kensington Town Hall, which Flora and I attended together. She accompanies me when she feels that the mood is determined but peaceable. I love it when she’s there; it forms a bond between us. Let’s work as we have never worked before to get this bill passed during this session of parliament. That was the gist of Mrs Pankhurst’s call to us all. Our cheers must have been audible all the way to Hyde Park. Afterwards Miss Baker, Flora and I were invited to dinner with Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence and her husband, Frederick. Their house is terribly posh but they are really nice and very generous and so committed to Christabel and Mrs Pankhurst and the Cause. Flora and Miss Baker started up a heated but friendly debate during the meal about the continuation or not of the present truce against militant action.
