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The women are excited when Margaret gets a reply to her letter to suffragist leader Mrs. Pankhurst, announcing that she plans to visit the group with a view to their affiliation with the Women's Social and Political Union. Only Helen, who ...See moreThe women are excited when Margaret gets a reply to her letter to suffragist leader Mrs. Pankhurst, announcing that she plans to visit the group with a view to their affiliation with the Women's Social and Political Union. Only Helen, who went to school with Mrs. Pankhurst and dislikes her, is unimpressed. Mrs. Pankhurst duly arrives, in a huge hat and referring to herself in the third person. Though unmoved by the song and tableau that the women perform for her, she believes that they should be allied because she admired their vandalism of the statue of Venus in the library. Unfortunately, Margaret owns up that this was the work of their rival group, and the affiliation is withdrawn. Written by don @ minifie-1 See less