they espoused, they agreed, as Christabel later commented, to forgo the wealth
that her father could have made in his legal work.^32 But there may also have
been another reason why Emmeline supported Richard in the course he
adopted, a course that meant an inevitable conflict ‘between purse and
pocket’.^33 According to Adela, her father ‘hated’ his profession, his heart being
in politics.^34
MARRIAGE AND ENTRY INTO POLITICAL LIFE