Should She Have Left Him? — page 210: what you’re looking at

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a MOMENTOUS EVENTS. 197 he is with a great sorrow. What sympathy did you give him when he needs so much?” Dorothy stared at her censor. Jealousy ts selfish. Dorothy had a dim realization of the truth. “What is the highest duty of a wife? Is it not to sympathize with her husband when he Is in trouble, to comfort him? It is especially your duty, sur- rounded as you are with such love and tenderness.” “That boy is his,” murmured Dorothy, and imme- diately conscious of the confession involved in her words. | “He does not deny it.” “Is that nothing?” whimpered Dorothy. “Nothing that you have to complain of,” calmly went on Mrs. Trevor-Allen. ‘‘Your time to com- plain was when Mr. Trescotte told you he had lived for five months with Mrs. Adams as his wife. When in the knowledge of it you accepted him, you for- gave everything, even the inevitable result of such a union.” “O Lou!” cried Dorothy. ‘‘You do not under- stand me.” “I understand everything, even that which you think, but are ashamed to say. I have little patience with you. Here you are, blessed as few women are, with a superior man for a husband, who loves you from the bottom of his noble heart, who surrounds you with all that love can give you and the protec- tion tenderness can invent—who makes your life a poem, one continued strain of delightful music, whese devotion is constant and never ceasing, and ff COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)