Jean. But they'd come round. (She looks from one to the other.) Mrs. Tunbridge says, before that horrid scene, everything was favourable at last.
Miss L. At last? Hadn't it been just as "favourable" before?
Mrs. F. No. We'd never had so many members pledged to our side.
Miss L. I thought I'd heard somebody say the Bill had got as far as that, time and time again.
Jean. Oh no. Surely not——
Mrs. F. (reluctantly). Y-yes. This was only a Resolution. The Bill passed a second reading thirty-seven years ago.
Jean (with wide eyes). And what difference did it make?
Miss L. The men laughed rather louder.
Mrs. F. Oh, it's got as far as a second reading several times—but we never had so many friends in the House before——