ABSTRACT
In early July, Christabel and her mother moved to Boulogne, partly to escape the hot Paris summer and partly because it was easier for visitors from London. They stayed at the Hotel de Paris. On 10 July the Lawrences, still rather weak from their prison ordeal, came for a few days, on their way to spend a fortnight in Switzerland. Christabel and her mother decided that the Women’s Social and Political Union had to widen the secret attacks on public and private property, as a way to force the Government to concede, just like men had done in the past to win their own enfranchisement. According to Fred, a discussion took place while the four of them were walking along the cliffs that lie between Boulogne and Wimereux. He and Christabel, a little apart from the two Emmelines, soon discovered that they held strongly opposing views.
