A year later, she was in Paris, going to school, a forward thinking one which taught chemistry to girls as well as more usual female pursuits like sewing. She shared a room with a girl whose father had been in prison for his political beliefs. This was probably more proof of her calling.
She turned down an offer of marriage, and believed she would never get married, but she did at the age of twenty, to a barrister who had also believed he would never get married. They met at a suffrage meeting, where he was fighting just as hard for the women`s cause as she was. It was strange and very attractive to her to find a man who cared about women and who thought they deserved their freedom. He was forty-four when they met, but the attraction was instant. However her family were not too happy, so much so that they thought they would not be allowed to marry and would have to live together. But her family were convinced, perhaps because being unmarried would have not allowed her to take any part in politics.
They were married just over a year since they first met, in December 1879.