Joan expressed her thanks. She would like to have had more talk with the
stern old lady, but was prevented by the entrance of two new comers. The
first was Miss Lavery, a handsome, loud-toned young woman. She ran a
nursing paper, but her chief interest was in the woman's suffrage
question, just then coming rapidly to the front. She had heard Joan
speak at Cambridge and was eager to secure her adherence, being wishful
to surround herself with a group of young and good-looking women who
should take the movement out of the hands of the "frumps," as she termed
them. Her doubt was whether Joan would prove sufficiently tractable. She
intended to offer her remunerative work upon the _Nursing News_ without
saying anything about the real motive behind, trusting to gratitude to
make her task the easier.
The second was a clumsy-looking, overdressed woman whom Miss Lavery
introduced as "Mrs. Phillips, a very dear friend of mine, who is going to
be helpful to us all," adding in a hurried aside to Madge, "I simply had
to bring her. Will explain to you another time.
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