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 heartily shocked at so scandalous a suggestion. Dr Müller, too, was strongly opposed to woman suffrage. A good and learned man, an affectionate husband, he was rigid in his views as to the impropriety of women manifesting an interest in politics. It is probable, too, that his position as an administrator of the law strengthened his disapproval of his wife taking any part in an agitation for its reform.

Whether this was so or not, Mrs Müller was confronted with a choice between domestic concord and the advocacy of views that she felt to be both just and urgent. In this painful dilemma Mr Charles Elliott, a relative by marriage, came to the rescue.