Should She Have Left Him? — page 106: what you’re looking at

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Kore) SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT GIM? married in Switzerland resides. She is the wife of Trescotte.” “Yes, most unfortunately; for if she were not, Dorothy would be, beyond dispute.” “Tt is her duty toclaim Trescotte as her husband, and insist upon a home with him.” Mrs. Courtenay narrowly watched the effect of her words upon her husband, but he was slow in comprehending her meaning. : “ But, my dear, people, as we have evidence, do not always do their duty,” he answered. ‘She is evidently a person of very ordinary origin, and doubtless could be made to see her duty in the proper light,” Mrs. Courtenay continued. “ Possibly, possibly,” rejoined the old gentleman, very much in the dark, but having profound confi- dence in his wife. “Of that grade which is struggling always for recognition from the upper classes, she undoubtedly will be very glad to secure a husband of Mr. Tres- cotte’s rank in the social scale.” “She did not seem so very anxious eight or nine years ago, when she gladly left Trescotte for Adams,” argued the husband, with a slight touch of humor. ““She was very young then, her head doubtless filled with romance—too young to fully realize the advantages of the connection she had made. Be- sides, she is abandoned by that man Adams, or did she abandon him? It is immaterial; they are apart.” Comicbooks.c© 5}