A few men and women who have played some part in the history of our times are mentioned in this novel. These apart, all characters are fictitious and all scenes are imaginary.

As a newspaper reporter, I saw much of the war waged by women for the vote; but I should be less than generous if I did not acknowledge the sharp refreshment of memory from The Suffragette Movement, by Miss E. Sylvia Pankhurst, who herself suffered so much in that cause.

H.S.