Should She Have Left Him? — page 214: what you’re looking at

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MRS. TREVOR-ALLEN'S PLAN. 201 giving to another woman what she believed should have been hers. Such emotion could be possessed only by a woman passionately loving her husband. While Dorothy loved her husband, admired him, held him guiltless, yet she vented her deep disap- pointment on him. I do not attempt to account for this. To do so would be to confess myself a - fool. He who attempts to account for the workings of the female heart is a fool. All he can hope to do is to detect its operations and hold them up to view, and ninety times in a hundred he fails at that. Explain? Explain the motive power of the stars in their heavenly courses. The female heart is one of God’s incomprehensibilities. When the baby came there was another change. Something of the old something slid out of sight. Trescotte was very proud and tender. And Doro- thy was very proud and tender, because he was proud. Perhaps if Mrs. Trevor-Allen could have been a witness of their exchanges of affection she would have plumed herself upon having contributed to it by the drastic potion she had administered to Dorothy. But she did not. Duty called her to the bedside of the man whose name she bore. There was no love, for she pro- fessed none, behind that duty, but she performed it with all the fidelity love could inspire. A frame weakened by years of self-indulgence could not at its advanced age withstand the insidious attack of _ disease, and he died, leaving her his vast fortune, | testimony, his will said, to his admiration of her a COMICMHOOOKS.CO @