Was it true that
she had become interested in our work? Would I please give him some
particulars, as the public would naturally want to know.
I admitted that Mrs. van Tuiver had joined the committee; she
approved of our work and desired to further it. That was all. He
asked: Would she give an interview? And I answered that I was sure
she would not. Then would I tell something about how she had come to
be interested in the work? It was a chance to assist our propaganda,
added the reporter, diplomatically.
I retired to another room, and got Sylvia upon the 'phone, "The time
has come for you to take the plunge," I said.
"Oh, but I don't want to be in the papers!" she cried "Surely, you
wouldn't advise it!"
"I don't see how you can avoid having something appear. Your name is
given out, and if the man can't get anything else, he'll take our
literature, and write up your doings out of his imagination."
"And they'll print my picture with it!" she exclaimed. I could not
help laughing. "It's quite possible."
"Oh, what will my husband do? He'll say 'I told you so!'"
It is a hard thing to have one's husband say that, as I knew by
bitter experience.
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