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"You may put me down for the platform," he cried, and vanished abashed

behind the curtain of his Times, where his wife found him at lunch time.

"I hear that you have had quite a long chat with Mrs. Westmacott," said

she.

"Yes, and I think that she is one of the most sensible women that I ever

knew."

"Except on the woman's rights question, of course."

"Oh, I don't know. She had a good deal to say for herself on that also.

In fact, mother, I have taken a platform ticket for her meeting."