Should She Have Left Him? — page 172: what you’re looking at

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MRS. TREVOR-ALLEN'S INTRIGUE. 159 pronouncedly that to have refused to have returned the salutation would have been no less than an insult. Suddenly and with inimitable art, she cried: “Why, there’s Agatha—I beg her pardon, Lady Agatha Malcolm. Tracy, go at once to her box, presenting my name and the compliments of Mrs. Trescotte, and ask her here.” ‘But, Lou,” protested Dorothy, dropping uncon- sciously into the old school day name, “ perhaps it may not be agreeable to Lady Malcolm to visit me.” “Poh!” contemptuously answered the young matron, brushing aside the protest. ‘Tracey Harte, do asI bid you. Vanish!” As the young gentleman disappeared, Mrs. Tre- vor-Allen continued in suspicious haste, “ She knows all that any of us know, and when she comes, if you Lady Malcolm her, she'll not forgive you. It is all very well for those who were not her intimate friends, but for one who was as intimate as you were, ‘ Aggie’ or ‘ Ag’ is what she wants to hear.” By this time Dorothy had realized that the episode was one of careful arrangement—that the young lady beside her had witnessed her treatment in the lobbies, and had determined to defeat an organized humiliation of herself. Though her sensitive soul shrank from so public an exhibition, Dorothy felt that gratitude to Mrs. Trevor-Allen demanded that she should assist her ally in her impulsive and generous effort, and she also thought it would be no more difficult to go through with COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)