top floor of 88-90 Chancery Lane were vacant. The Midland
Insurance Co. that occupied nearly all the building has
cleared out and the block is to be given over to a multitude
of small undertakings. Well: I secured our old rooms! Simply
splendid, with the two safes that Honoria, untold ages ago,
fitted into the walls, and hid so cleverly that if there is
no treachery it would be hard for the police to find them
and raid them. The Midland Insurance Co. did not behave well
to Fraser and Warren, so Beryl Storrington, when she was
clearing out said nothing about the safes, which were not
noticed by the Company. Honoria kept the keys and now hands
them over to me.

The W.S.P.U. has taken--also under an alias--other offices
on the same side of the way, at No. 94, top storey. We find
we can, by using the fire escape, pass over the intervening
roofs and reach the parapet outside the "partners' room" at
the 88-90 building. I shall once again make use of the
little room next the partners' office as a bedroom or
rather, "tiring" room, where I can if necessary effect
changes of costume. I have taken the new offices in the name
of Mr. Michaelis[1] for a special reason; and with some
modifications of David's costume I have appeared in person
to assume possession of them. I generally enter No. 94
dressed as Vivie Warren. All this may sound very silly to
you, like playing at conspiracy. But these precautions seem
to be necessary. The Government is beginning to take
Suffragism seriously, and a whole department at New Scotland
Yard has been organized to cope with our activities.

[Footnote 1: Michaelis, I believe, was a Greek merchant
dealing with sponges, emery powder, coral, and other
products of the Mediterranean shores whose acquaintance
Vivie had originally made when interested in the shares of
that Levantine house, Charles Davis and Co. Of Ionian birth
he had become a naturalized British subject, but having
grown wealthy had decided to transfer himself to Athens and
enter political life. He had consented amusedly to Vivie's
adoption of his name for her new tenancy and had given her
an old passport, which you could do in the days that knew
not Dora--she resembling him somewhat in appearance. He was
aware of h