CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
APRIL 1871
“I am going to stop reading the news if it continues to be this grim,” Tennie declared, shaking her head over the journal in her hand.
“What is going on now?” I asked, buttering a piece of toast.
“The French Communards are fighting against their government,” Stephen said like a child tattling on a rival, allowing a maid to pour him another cup of tea.
“That’s not what I’m talking about.” Tennie shot him a dark look. “Have you seen this?” She held up the most recent edition of the American Woman Suffrage Association’s Women’s Journal. “They said that the National Woman Suffrage Association’s alliance with Victoria is ‘worse than if they’d allied with a bigot.’”
“They already have. You’ve heard Susan and Elizabeth speak about Negros and immigrants, right?”
