“Speaking on what?” asked the girl.
“On the improvement of the condition of women.”
“What! a political affair?”
“No, no; not political at all; a something quite disconnected with politics—quite above them. She has been chosen President of a new society which is to be called ‘The Society for the Regeneration of Women.’”
CHAPTER V
THE S.R.W.
Why is it that women are so fond of founding societies both for the improvement of themselves and of each other? Is it a confession of weakness, or is it one of the signs of the coming of the millenium?
Mrs. Whittaker was a woman who never did things by halves. She distinctly prided herself thereupon.