"Waldo shook his head, and continued to look westward along the Mall.
He's rather good at acting in an amateur sort of fashion. Lena followed
his gaze, and then turned to him with a puzzled look of inquiry.
"'Exactly,' said Waldo, in answer to her look.
"'But--how can we create?' she asked; 'it's been done already.'
"'Do it _again_,' said Waldo, 'and again and again--'
"Before he could finish the sentence she had kissed him. She declared
afterwards that he was the first man she had ever kissed, and he declared
that she was the first woman who had ever kissed him in the Mall, so they
both secured a record of a kind.
"Within the next day or two a new departure was noticeable in Suffragette
tactics. They gave up worrying Ministers and Parliament and took to
worrying their own sympathisers and supporters--for funds. The ballot-
box was temporarily forgotten in the cult of the collecting-box. The
daughters of the horseleech were not more persistent in their demands,
the financiers of the tottering _ancien regime_ were not more desperate
in their expedients for raising money than the Suffragist workers of all
sections at this juncture, and in one way and another, by fair means and
normal, they really got together a very useful sum.
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