Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill MRS. CHALLONER'S PUBLIC MEETING tT DON'T think you've ever met my daughter, Mrs. Challoner," said Colonel Beresford to Dr. Whitty one day near the end of October. " No," said the doctor, " I haven't. She hasn't been over in Ballintra since I've been in the place." " She very seldom pays me a visit," said the colonel. " She's a good deal tied to London. Her husband is a barrister, and when he gets a holiday he likes to go abroad. However, it seems she's been working too hard lately, and has knocked herself up. She's coming over here for rest and quiet." " She'll get them both. I don't know anywhere with more quiet about it than Ballintra in the autumn." Dr. Whitty wondered what Mrs. Challoner worked at in London, but he was too well-mannered a man to ask a direct question. " I dare say you've seen her name in the papers," said the colonel. " It has been pretty prominent in the discussions about Woman's Suffrage. She hastaken the matter up, and, like all women, she's tremendously keen." Dr. Whitty had not seen her name. He seldom saw an English paper, and unless a woman makes herself very remarkable indeed, unless she gets imprisoned in circumstances of an entirely novel kind, the Irish papers take no notice of her. " Of course I have," said Dr. Whitty; " but I didn't think of her being your daughter." " I wish she wouldn't do it," said the colonel. " It's too much for her. I quite agree with her view of the question, but I'd sooner she left the heavy end of the work to some one else." This surprised Dr. Whitty a good deal. He would not have suspected Colonel Beresford of being an advocate of Woman's Suffrage. " I don't know what your opinions on the subject are," said the colonel. Dr. Whitty had no opinions. Woman's Suffrage is not a burni...