The Scandalous Suffragette. Eliza Redgold

him.’

      ‘Of course,’ Adam said swiftly. ‘I understand.’

      ‘You saw the problems with his health. My opportunity to support the Cause, limited as it was, has diminished considerably.’

      Votes for women! So boldly her handmade banner had declared it. All that would be gone now, she thought, with another of those painful pangs. If she and her parents went back to Manchester, she would certainly be constrained from her deeds as a suffragette. She couldn’t risk her papa’s health worsening. What was it he had said? ‘No more of this suffragette nonsense!’ Those words hurt Violet as much as him wanting a son rather than a daughter. Being a suffragette wasn’t nonsense. It was about honour and justice.