"I can't say I disagree," Harry said grimly. It wasn't the outcome he had hoped for, but it felt like the more realistic one. "Realistic" here meant "especially sub-optimal. "I was in favor of universal suffrage, and I told Dempsey that when he approached me." It felt like they'd moved a few steps forward and then just as many back, having done little more than reshuffle things. It was... progress. Technically. But not in the way he'd wanted.

"I wonder if Wright would have any more success," Harry mused. "I suppose it depends on how he would have approached bringing about reform." It didn't really do to wonder about "what ifs" when there wasn't something to do about them. As frustrating as that was, because knowing it was useless didn't really help make it easier.

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