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"Oh, good morning, Miss Coggswell! Do sit down. Yes, isn't it? So spring-like and balmy. Oh, not at all; I'm never busy. I'm always glad to see callers. On business? Oh, I don't know anything about business! About Suffrage! Why, you look so lady-like! Become a Suffragist? Me? Oh, I'm happily married! Oh, excuse me! I don't mean but what you are far happier unmarried-of course you are, or you wouldn't have stayed so. But-well, really, I don't know the first principles of this suffrage business. Not necessary? Oh, I think I ought to know what I'm joining; and, besides, the suffrage people are such frumps. What! They're going to dress better? Well, I'm glad of it. But, really, you know, I'm not a bit suffragy. Why, I'm afraid of a mouse, and I just love lingerie ribbons! And, anyway, I should vote just as Bob told me to, and I'm sure everyone else would, so it would just double the men's votes, you see. The unmarried women? Yes, that's so; I'd forgotten them.
But I suppose they'd ask their brothers-in-law or their ministers or somebody, for you certainly can't tell how to vote by reading the papers!