The following words which she puts into the mouth of a Suffrage speaker
are evidently her own reflections on the subject of the Suffrage:


"'I don't think for a moment that the millennium will come in with
the vote,' she smiled, after a little pause. 'But our faces, the
faces of the human race, have always been set towards the
millennium, haven't they? And this will be one great step towards
it. It is always difficult to make a move forward, for it implies
criticism of the past, and of the good men and true who have
brought the people up to that especial point. However gently the
change is made, that element must be there, for there is always a
sense of struggle in changing from the old to the new. I do not
think we are nearly careful enough to make it quite clear that we
do not hold that we women _alone_ could have done a bit
better--that we are proud of the great work our men have done. We
speak only of the mistakes, not of the great achievements; only I
do think the mistakes need not have been there if we had worked at
it together!'

"The salvation of the world was wrapped up in the gospel she
preached. Many of the audience were caught in the swirl as she
spoke. Love and amity, the common cause of healthier homes and
happier people and a stronger Empire, the righting of all wrongs,
and the strengthening of all right--all this was wrapped up in the
vote."


In the early years of this century Suffrage societies were scattered all
over Scotland, and it began to be felt that much of their work was lost