AGATHA: (*mildly*) How do you do, Horace...
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Horace is an anti-suffragist clerk, who supports the Men’s League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage. When the suffragists call for a general women’s strike, all women quit their jobs and go to their nearest male relative to be supported by them. Horace is inundated with his female relatives coming to his home, asking to be supported. In this scene, Horace’s sister Agatha has arrived at his home. She is the first of his female relations to arrive and he is shocked to find out that his sister has
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AGATHA: (mildly) How do you do, Horace. (Kisses him) Dear Ethel! (Kisses her). You’re not looking so well as usual. Would you mind paying the cabman two shillings, Horace, and helping him with my box? It’s rather heavy, but then it contains all my worldly belongings.
HORACE: Agatha – you haven’t lost your situation! You haven’t left the Lewises?
AGATHA: Yes, Horace; I left at three o’clock.
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AGATHA: Until the bill for the removal of the sex disability is passed.
HORACE: (impotently angry) Nonesense. I can’t keep you, and I won’t. I have always tried to do my duty by you. I think hardly a week passes that I don’t write to you. But now that you have deliberately thrown up an excellent situation as a governess and come here and threatened me – yes, threatened me – I think it’s time to say that, sister or no sister, I will be master in my own house!
Citation: Cicely Hamilton & Christopher St. John, How the Vote Was Won, Concord Theatricals, 1909, pp. 15-17.
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