'Yes. And when they protest what splendid friends of the Suffrage they are, we say, "You don't care twopence about it. You are like the humbugs who are there in the House of Commons already."'
'Humbugs!'
'Calls 'em 'umbugs to their fyces! Haw! haw!'
Roars and booing filled the air.
'We know, for many of us helped to put them there. But that was before we knew any better. Never again!'
Once more that wise little wag of the head, while the people shrieked with laughter. It was highly refreshing to think those Government blokes couldn't take in Ernestine.
'It's only the very young or the very foolish who will ever be caught that way again,' she assured them.
'’Ow old are you?'
'Much too old to——'
'Just the right age to think about gettin' married,' shouted a pasty-faced youth.