Should She Have Left Him? — page 48: what you’re looking at

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A GIRL BECOMES A WOMAN. 35 “TI mean the two women involved—yourself and Mrs. Adams.” He hesitated over the name to apply to the other woman. Dorothy looked up sharply, and replied: “Yes, for Mrs. Adams, separated from her hus. band and with her children.” Magrane began to doubt his powers of expres- sion when he found he had signally failed to make clear that the woman who for eight years or more had lived with Adams as his wife was not Mrs. Adams, but Mrs. Trescotte. Yet he shrank from delivering the direct blow that would awaken Dorothy to the fact he wanted her to comprehend. He sought another method. “My statement of fact is ended,” he said. “To advise is my profession. Though I am Mr. Tres- cotte’s counsel, yet I can serve you in the same capacity.” The look Dorothy gave him was swift and searching. “Ah?” Her ejaculation conveyed no meaning to him. . “T presume you will return to-day to your father. Command me in any way you may desire.” “ Return to my father? ”’ She repeated the words slowly, with a wondering expression in her eyes. “Yes,” replied Magrane, “you see, you are not now legally the wife of Mr. Trescotte.” The first expression of pain he had yet noted , GOMMGIOO cS (GO)