trying to say during the length of this interview is that I'd as soon dip
my soul in boiling oil as try to convert you away from the cause. _My_
cause! _Our_ cause!"

"Why--"

"I'm here to tell you that I'm with my partner head-over-heels on the plank
he has taken."

"But we thought--"

"We thought you and Betty Sheridan--why, my cousin Genevieve Remington told
me that--"

"Yes, yes, Miss Emelene. But not even the wiles of a pretty woman can hold
out indefinitely against Truth! A broad-minded man has got to keep the door
of his mind open to conviction, or it decays of mildew. I confess that
finally I am convinced that if there is one platform more than another
upon which George Remington deserves his election it is on the brave and
chivalrous principles he has so courageously come out with in the current
_Sentinel_. Whatever may have been between Betty Sheridan and--"

"Mr. Evans, you don't mean to tell me that you and Betty Sheridan have
quarreled! Such a desirable match from every point of view, family and all!
It goes to show what a rattle-pated bunch of women they are! Any really
clever girl with an eye to her future, anti or pro, could shift her
politics when it came to a question of matri--"

"Mrs. Smith, there comes a time in every modern man's life when he's got to
keep his politics and his pretty girls separate, or suffrage will get him