Mrs. Flynn, curiously enough, was opposed to the idealist in this instance.
"Yes," she said, "I fear that it's quite true. The professional working woman thinks more of her salary and a comfortable living than of our great cause."
Cicily herself disposed of the matter with a blithesome nonchalance that was beautiful to behold.
"Oh, don't bother," was her way of cutting the Gordian knot. "I'll make my husband's stenographer do the work."
"I move that we adjourn," the militant suffragette repeated in a most businesslike manner.
Mrs. Carrington was determined that her rival should not outdistance her at the finish. She spoke with her most forcible dignity:
"I second the motion."
The motion was put and carried.... Thus ended the first session of that epoch-marking organization: The Civitas Society for the Uplift of Woman and for Encouraging the Spread of Social Equality among the Masses.