This other girl, Maud Vincent, always said to her men friends, it wuz
onwomanly to try to vote. She wuz one of the girls who always gloried in
bein' a runnin' vine when there wuz any masculine trees round to lean
on and twine about. One who always jined in with all the idees they
promulgated, from neckties to the tariff, who declared cigar smoke wuz so
agreeable and welcome; it did really make her deathly sick, but she would
choke herself cheerfully and willin'ly if by so chokin' she could gain
manly favor and admiration.

She said she didn't believe in helpin' poor girls, they wuz well enough
off as it wuz, she wuz sure they didn't feel hunger and cold as rich girls
did, their skin wuz thicker and their stomachs different and stronger, and
constant labor didn't harm them, and working girls didn't need recreation
as rich girls did, and woman's suffrage wouldn't help them any; in her
opinion it would harm them, and anyway the poor wuz on-grateful.

She had the usual arguments on the tip of her tongue, for old Miss Vincent,
the aunt she lived with, wuz a ardent She Aunty and very prominent in the
public meetin's the She Auntys have to try to compel the Suffragists not
to have public meetin's. They talk a good deal in public how onwomanly
and immodest it is for wimmen to talk in public. And she wuz one of the
foremost ones in tryin' to git up a school to teach wimmen civics, to prove
that they mustn't ever have anything to do with civics.

Yes, old Miss Vincent wuz a real active, ardent She Aunty, and Maud
Genevieve takes after her. Royal Gray, his handsome attractive personality,
and his millions, had long been the goal of Maud's ambition. And how
ardently did she hail the coolness growing between him and Polly, the
little rift in the lute, and how zealously did she labor to make it larger.