Should She Have Left Him? — page 187: what you’re looking at

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174 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM} without losing his perplexed expression. ‘Can I serve you in any way?” Replying in the negative, the lady thanked him, but in so low and strained a voice that the child looked up at his mother in surprise. Trescotte left the room, his face showing that memory suggested he should know the lady, but had failed to tell him who she was. Then followed a period of undisturbed waiting, during which time the lady had ample time to recover from the agitation into which she had been thrown by Trescotte’s entrance, but which time she spent in drawing the boy to her and earnestly study- ing his features. By and by a carriage was rapidly driven to the front, and the watchful Buttons threw open the door to admit two ladies. Downs appeared and informed one of them that a lady was awaiting her inthe reception room. All of which the waiting lady could hear through the open doors, but could not see. ; “Go to my room, Lou, and let Marie give you some writing materials,” she heard one lady say. ‘And, Downs, let Connor prepare himself to.carry a note to the address Mrs. Trevor-Allen will give him.” The owner of the voice entered the reception room, holding in her hand the card Downs had given her. ‘Mrs. Adams?” — | She was smiling and pleasant. “Mrs. Trescotte, I believe?” GOMMGIOO cS (GO)