ABSTRACT

She was as good as her ~ord. Before the week was out, she called all the girls together for a great mass meeting ; there, the first instalment of strike pay ·was handed out to them. Annie Besant was there and Herbert Burrows, Bernard Shaw and Graham Wallas. The t\vo latter carried a great bag containing five hundred pounds in coin ; this was poured out on to the table, and cou11:ted out ~ then the girls filed by one by one to get their pay handed to them by Mrs. Besant. To her the girls looked up, almost with worship ; they crowded round to kiss her skirts ; for them, she seemed little short of an angel.