Should She Have Left Him? — page 130: what you’re looking at

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124 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? lawyer will advise you. I don’t know just what would be necessary to establish the fact. Perhaps a divorce suit upon the part of somebody. But here I must stop, for embarrassment begins. I cannot and will not advise you as to this, because my sacerdotal office forbids me. All I can do is to sug- gest the reference of the question to competent counsel. But I will goto Dorothy. She will not refuse to talk to me, who has baptized, confirmed, and married her.” Mrs. Courtenay left the bishop with a light heart. She was more than ever convinced of the ‘‘comforts of religion”; and without waiting to consult her husband was driven downtown, to the office of Mr. Magrane. The bishop did go, and without delay, to Dorothy. Moreover he met Trescotte. The call was exceedingly pleasant to all concerned, though the bishop did set forth their duty as he saw it, but as they did not, and as they frankly told him. But everybody was very polite. Dorothy was really glad to see the bishop and made him feel that she was. But pleased as he was, he left them with little belief in the efficacy of his own law, and much faith in that which he was certain Mrs. Courtenay had left him to invoke. CoOmiclboOoks.€©