But we are beginning to ` get in a low , ' as old Highland Sandy says , over the approaching election . Conscription is the real issue at stake and it will be the most exciting election we ever had . All the women ` who have got de age ' -- to quote Jo Poirier , and who have husbands , sons , and brothers at the front , can vote . Oh , if I were only twenty-one ! Gertrude and Susan are both furious because they ca n't vote . '' ` It is not fair , ' Gertrude says passionately . ` There is Agnes Carr who can vote because her husband went . She did everything she could to prevent him from going , and now she is going to vote against the Union Government . Yet I have no vote , because my man at the front is only my sweetheart and not my husband ! '' `` As for Susan , when she reflects that she can not vote , while a rank old pacifist like Mr. Pryor can -- and will -- her comments are sulphurous . `` I really feel sorry for the Elliotts and Crawfords and MacAllisters over-harbour . They have always lined up in clearly divided camps of Liberal and Conservative , and now they are torn from their moorings -- I know I 'm mixing my metaphors dreadfully -- and set hopelessly adrift . It will kill some of those old Grits to vote for Sir Robert Borden 's side -- and yet they have to because they believe the time has come when we must have conscription . And some poor Conservatives who are against conscription must vote for Laurier , who always has been anathema to them . Some of them are taking it terribly hard . Others seem to be in much the same attitude as Mrs. Marshall Elliott has come to be regarding Church Union . `` She was up here last night . She does n't come as often as she used to . She is growing too old to walk this far -- dear old ` Miss Cornelia . ' I hate to think of her growing old -- we have always loved her so and she has always been so good to us Ingleside young fry .
`` She used to be so bitterly opposed to Church XXXXX .
Borden Carr Conservative Crawfords Pryor Sandy Susan Union anathema over-harbour