Should She Have Left Him? — page 199: what you’re looking at

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186 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM} trary, that you and your husband may be brought together again. Perhaps Mr. Trescotte can do ‘something to show Mr. Adams that a marriage does exist between you, and that that in itself will bring about a reconciliation.” “I fear not,” Elsie said. “There are some things, apparently, Mr. Adams will not forgive. If you feel I am sincere when I say nothing will persuade me to interfere with your happiness, I am content. | - expect no happiness in my own life. But it will be a little less miserable if I can feel that I have pre- vented your separation. I owe this to Mr. Tres cotte, for he tried, at his own sacrifice, once to serve me in the highest manner a man can serve a woman. I want him to know I have not forgotten what he did then; that I am filled with remorse that I was so weak at that time. And now that I have met you, I want you to know for yourself that nothing I may do will ever interfere with your happiness. And if you do, I will go home, perhaps never to see ycu again.’ She arose to end the interview—to escape with her boy from the house of his father. Dorothy rose with her, and threw open the door leading into the salon. Mrs. Trevor-Allen stood within. ‘‘I was tired of being alone,” she laughed, “so f came down into this favorite room of mine.” Dorothy was making some commonplace apology for having left her so long alone, when she heard her husband’s voice outside the door. COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)