August smirked at her. Mrs. Evangeline Rowle's sense of humor was part of why he enjoyed her. "If we get the vote for women," he said, with a slight wave of his hand as if to say I know we're reaching, please bear with me. "What do you think is the next step for feminist progress?"

Some people thought the vote would fix everything; August did not. He also doubted that Mrs. Rowle thought so.