interested. Up with anything you like, and down with everything you
don't. Be careful not to land me in a libel suit. Call the whole Bench
of Bishops hypocrites, and all the ground landlords thieves, if you will:
but don't mention names. And don't get me into trouble with the police.
Beyond that, I shan't interfere with you."

She was about to speak.

"One stipulation," he went on, "that every article is headed with your
photograph."

He read the sudden dismay in her eyes.

"How else do you think you are going to attract their attention?" he
asked her. "By your eloquence! Hundreds of men and women as eloquent as
you could ever be are shouting to them every day. Who takes any notice
of them? Why should they listen any the more to you--another cranky
highbrow: some old maid, most likely, with a bony throat and a beaky
nose. If Woman is going to come into the fight she will have to use her
own weapons. If she is prepared to do that she'll make things hum with a
vengeance. She's the biggest force going, if she only knew it."

He had risen and was pacing the room.

"The advertiser has found that out, and is showing the way." He snatched
at an illustrated magazine, fresh from the press, that had been placed
upon his desk, and opened it at the first page. "Johnson's Blacking," he
read out, "advertised by a dainty little minx, showing her ankles. Who's
going to stop for a moment to read about somebody's blacking? If a saucy
little minx isn't there to trip him up with her ankles!"