Declan shook his head almost immediately. His cheeks warmed up with embarrassment, even though this was not the first time he had been asked a question like that. "No," he said, "But Miss Whitby and I do distribution." Sometimes they got paid to do invitations for events like this, but mostly it was Tess' side project — and Declan liked to be involved, because he liked spending time with Tess and because he agreed with the suffragettes, broadly.

It was hard for him not to think about class and gender as being intertwined in many ways — working class women experienced things that upper class women never would, and all that. This man didn't look like he would entirely understand that, though.