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At the same time she led a general kind of conversation. The Christmas feast was to be communal in spirit as well as in fact there were to be no formalities above the salt or mutterings below it. The new harmonium provided a good topic, for everyone had heard it, except Mrs. Tolhurst who had stayed to keep watch over Ansdore, cheering herself with the prospect of carols in the evening.
When the last was gone, she turned back into the house, where Mrs. Tolhurst stood ready with her broom to begin an immediate sweep-up after the waiters, whom she looked upon as the chief source of the disorder. A queer feeling came over Joanna, a feeling of loneliness, of craving, and she fell in all her glory of feathers and silk upon Mrs. Tolhurst's alpaca bosom.
Mrs. Shelley Tolhurst closed the appeal. Then Mrs. George A. Caswell of Los Angeles, representing the women anti-suffragists, read a paper of fifty minutes. Possibly there was no measure before the Legislature in which deeper interest was manifested or which had the urge of stronger public sentiment.
Tolhurst "there's no good young Mus' Southland saying as the girl's mother sent for her I know better." "I saw Mrs. Lambarde after church on Sunday," said Joanna, "and she wasn't expecting Elsie then." "Elsie went before her box did," said Milly Pump, "Bill Piper fetched it along after her, as he told me himself." "I'm sure it's Tom Southland," said Joanna. "Surelye," said Mrs.
It had been a running fight, for Tolhurst had orders, as Ackert had found means of knowing, to join the main body without delay, and his chief aim was to shake off this persistent pursuit with which a far inferior force had harassed his march.
Tolhurst were kept flying up and down stairs with hot bricks and poultices and that particularly noxious brew of camomile tea which she looked upon as the cure of every ill.
On December 1 a meeting was called by this committee and the league was re-organized; President, Mrs. Caroline M. Severance; vice-president, Mrs. Shelley Tolhurst; secretary, Mrs. Lenore C. Schultz. Monthly meetings were held for several years at the Woman's Club House, the money for the rent being given by Mr. Wilde, whose sympathy was strong for suffrage.
Somebody in Tanglefoot the Lord only knows who showed Tolhurst that underground way out ter Greenbrier Cove, through a sorter cave or tunnel in the mountings." "Now now neighbor that's guesswork," remonstrated the miller, in behalf of Tanglefoot Cove repudiating the responsibility.
Surely a woman of your age can stop anywhere by herself." "Oh, indeed, can she, ma'am? And what about a woman of your age? It's you I don't like leaving alone here." "That's absurd of you. I'm a married woman, and quite able to look after myself. Besides, I've Mrs. Tolhurst with me, and the Ernleys are quite close." "Oh, yes, the Ernleys!" sniffed Joanna with a toss of her head.
They went into the larder and Mrs. Tolhurst began: "I hardly lik to say it to you, Miss Joanna, being a single spinster ..." This was a bad beginning, for Joanna flamed at once at the implication that her spinsterhood put her at any disadvantage as a woman of the world. "Don't talk nonsense, Mrs. Tolhurst; I may be unwed as yet, but I'm none of your Misses."
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