Lora Delane Porter, for years in the forefront of America's Feminist movement, is working on a book called Woman in the New Era in A Prisoner of War and is renting a house in England for the summer. Her disciple is Sybil Bannister, wife of her nephew Hailey. In The Coming of Bill she is a gimlet-eyed crank on eugenics and germs, authoress of The Dawn of Better Things, Principles of Selection, and What of Tomorrow? Relict of a newspaper man named Porter, aunt of Ruth Bannister in The Coming of Bill.

• The Coming of Bill