"Because if we do not unite against this awful situation, we—well, we are lost!"
She sighed, as if she saw no hope anywhere in the moonlight.
"Will you marry me, Lula?"
"Oh! Colonel Adams——"
"Under ordinary circumstances I'd never dare hope for such a boon. I'm unworthy of you. No man can be—but consider what will happen if you refuse?"
"What will happen?" she exclaimed.
"You must pass the remainder of your days, the sweetest, most beautiful years of a woman's life, in intimate daily contact with a suffragist, with a young woman who votes like a man!"
"God help me! What do you mean?" she cried in genuine alarm.
"Bob's going to marry Selah! that's what I mean. You'll have to live with them. And if you don't marry me, I'll have to live with them!"