ar, who had no use
for either man or woman! Aguilar, a man without a Christian name, one of
those men in connection with whom a Christian name is impossibly
ridiculous. How should she, Audrey, address Aguilar in future? Would he
have to be asked to tea? These vital questions naturally transcended all
others in Audrey's mind.... Still (she veered round), it was perhaps after
all just the union that might have been expected.

"And now," said Rosamund at length, "I have a question to put to you."

"Well?"

"I don't want a definite answer here and now." She looked round
disdainfully at the foyer. "But I do want to set your mind on the right
track at the earliest possible moment--before any accidents occur." She
smiled satirically. "You see how frank I am with you. I'll be more frank
still, and tell you that I came to this concert to-night specially to see
you."

"Did you?" Audrey murmured. "Well!"

The older woman looked down upon her from a superior height. Her eyes were
those of an autocrat. It was quite possible to see in them the born leader
who had dominated thousands of women and played a drawn game with the
British Government itself. But Audrey, at the very moment when she was
feeling the overbearing magic of that gaze, happened to remember the scene
in Madame Piriac's automobile on the night of her first arrival in Paris,
when she herself was asleep and Rosamund, not knowing that she was asleep,
had been solemnly addressing her. Miss Ingate's often repeated account of
the scene always made her laugh, and the memory of it now caused her to
smile faintly.

"I want to suggest to you," Rosamund proceeded, "that you begin to work for
me."

"For the suffrage--or for you?"

"It is the same thing," said Rosamund coldly. "I am the suffrage. Without
me the cause would not have existed to-day."

"Well," said Audrey, "of course I will. I have done a bit already, you
know."

"Yes, I know," Rosamund admitted. "You did very well at the Blue City.
That's why I'm approaching you. That's why I've chosen you."

"Chosen me for what?"

"You know that a new great campaign will soon begin. It is all arranged.
It will necessitate my returning to England and challenging the police. You
know also that Jane Foley was to have been my lieutenant-in-chief--for the
active part of the operation. You will admit that I can no longer count on
her completely. Will you take her place?"

"I'll help," said Audrey. "I'll do what I can. I