The Gay Rebellion, Page 23

  XXII

  AS they left the house an hour later, walking down the path slowly,shoulder to shoulder, she said:

  "Mr. Brown, I _want_ you to like that house."

  A sudden and subtly hideous idea glided into his brain.

  "_You_ don't believe in suffragettes, do you?" he said, forcing a hollowlaugh.

  "Why, I _am_ one. Didn't you know it?"

  "_You!_"

  "Certainly. Goodness! how you did run! But," she added with innocentsatisfaction, "I think I have secured every bit as good a one as the oneGladys chased out of a tree with her horrid marmoset."