ABSTRACT
IN her heart Karyl was not so assured of success with her own sex as she affected to he. She fully realised her diffi culties, and knew that nothing less than a revolution of feeling could overthrow the traditional yoke that women had learned not only to bear but to cherish. Yet she knew also that, without this revolution, without the united strength of womanhood on her side, she could make no headway. The cry of intelligent men for years had been: “When all the women of England 109want it, we will give them the vote,” and she believed they were ready to keep their word, knowing the nature of Englishmen to be all for peace and comfort in their daily lives, for a pleasant companionship in their homes and as little friction as possible. She believed, also, that the majority of men were beginning to realise, in this year of grace 1920, that their wives, mothers, and sisters generally were extremely capable of doing anything they attempted to do, and that the higher education of their daughters had made of them something more than mere sitters by the fire. But it pleased them to think that these wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters were perfectly content with their lot, and Karyl was aware that her business was to make women themselves destroy this pleasing illusion.
