Should She Have Left Him? — page 89: what you’re looking at

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76 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? This statement, as we know, was an error. It was not the purpose of the lawyer to mislead. When informed that Dorothy had left town on the night of the revelation, he leaped to the conclusion that his advice had been followed. That Dorothy should go to the house in New York did not seem strange to her father. The house was hers, held in her name, and he thought she naturally preferred the seclusion it afforded to facing society, as she must, were she to go to his home in Newport. Indeed, he thought she was prompted by that delicacy of discretion a daughter of Herbert Courte- nay naturally would show. When Dorothy came to him in the reception room into which he had been shown by a neat lad in livery, very satisfactory to his eye, critical in such things, he greeted her with an effusive tenderness, which was not his wont. He was not so unobserv- ant as to fail to note that Dorothy did not seem to be utterly broken down with grief, but it was fleeting, this notice, all else was lost in the joy of finding her. ‘“‘ My dear, dear daughter !”’ he cried as he tenderly embraced her. Dorothy was much surprised at this greeting, so unlike her father. When his card had been handed her she had nerved herself for a storm of reproaches and angry protests. She knew what prejudices she was opposing, and that her father was the embodiment of them all. Believing her father to be fully informed of all the events, includ. ing her own determination not to be separated COIN @ NOOKS (GO)