She simply said "she would see about it" and met the difficulty by giving up her suffrage parties for a bit and attending Lady Maud's instead; where you met not only poor Vivie, but had she been in London and guaranteed reformed and rangée you might have met Vivie's mother; as well as the Duchess of Dulborough American, and intensely Suffrage the charwoman from Little Francis Street, the bookseller's wife, the "mother of the maids" from Derry and Toms; and that very clever chemist who had mended Juliet Duff's nose when she fell on the ice at Princes' they would both be there.