She began by calling on the Government to save the need of further demonstration by giving the women of the country some speedy measure of justice. 'They'll have to give it to us in the end. They might just as well do it gracefully and at once as do it grudgingly and after more "scenes."' Whereupon loud booing testified to the audience's horror of anything approaching unruly behaviour. 'Oh, yes, you are scandalized at the trouble we make. But--I'll tell you a secret'--she paused and collected every eye and ear--'_we've only just begun_! You'd be simply _staggered_ if you knew what the Government still has to expect from us, if they don't give us what we're asking for.' 'Oh, ain't she just _awful_!' sniggered a girl with dyed hair and gorgeous jewelry. The men laughed and shook their heads. She just was! They crowded nearer. 'You'd better take care! There's a policeman with 'is eye on you.' 'It's on you, my friends, he's got his eye. You saw a little while ago how they had to take away somebody for disturbing our meeting. It wasn't a woman.' 'Hear, hear!' 'The police are our friends, when the Government allows them to be. The other day when there was that scene in the House, one of the policemen who was sent up to clear the gallery said he wished the members would come and do their own dirty work. They hate molesting us. We don't blame the police. We put the blame where it belongs--on the Liberal Government.' 'Pore old Gov'mint--gettin' it 'ot.' 'Hooray fur the Gov'mint!' 'We see at last--it's taken us a long time, but we see at last--women get nothing even from their professed political friends, they've nothing whatever to expect by waiting and being what's called "ladylike."' 'Shame!' 'We don't want to depreciate the work of preparation the older, the "ladylike," Suffrage women did, but we came at last to see that all that was possible to accomplish that way had been done. The Cause hadn't moved an inch for years. It was even doing the other thing. Yes, it was going backward. Even the miserable little pettifogging share women had had in Urban and Borough Councils--even that they were deprived of. And they were tamely submitting! Women who had been splendid workers ten years ago, women with the best capacities for public service, had fallen into a kind of apathy. They were utterly disheartened. Many had given up the struggle. That was the state of affairs with regard to Woman's Suffrage only a few short months ago. We looked at the Suffragists who had grown grey in petitioning Parliament and being constitutional and "ladylike," and we said, "_That's no good._"' Through roars of laughter and indistinguishable denunciation certain fragments rose clear-- 'So you tried being a public nuisance!' 'A laughing-stock!'