Women for votes

by Elizabeth Hughes

MR. VAN TOUSEL. Yes, Miss Mildred. Don’t disappoint us in this way. Melvin will come and see you another time.

MRS. BROWN. Why won’t Mr. Melvin come with us?

MR. MELVIN. Thank you. I can’t very well. I have an engagement for four o’clock.

MRS. BROWN. I thought you were going to stay here for tea at five o’clock.

MR. MELVIN. I was coming back to tea to meet Miss Slavinsky.

(MR. TILSBURY returns dressed in fur coat and goggles.)

MR. TILSBURY. Come along, Josephine. Are you not ready yet? The days are growing so short that we ought to start right away if we are going to return before dark.

MRS. BROWN. We are waiting for Mildred.

MRS. TILSBURY. (Decidedly.) If you do not feel well enough to go, Mildred, I will stay at home with you. Perhaps we had best send for the doctor.

MILDRED. Oh, don’t stay at home for me, Josephine. I shall be all right.