"Then you ought to be on it."
"No woman is on it."
"You wish them to be?"
She threw out her hands. "What would be the use? Their voices would have no weight."
"Whose would?"
"Yours," she said; and, eyeing him full, stopped dead.
"You wish me to go upon that Commission?" cried Prince Max.
"Yes."
"In spite of all my ignorance?"
"The sittings do not begin till late autumn; between now and then you could get more actual knowledge—brought home and made visible to you, I mean—than most of those who will form its majority."