Should She Have Left Him? — page 135: what you’re looking at

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LAW SUPPORTS THE CHURCH. 129 saw her she was apparently hopeless. Now she was in high glee, declaring everything was all right. This whirling about and unsettling things that had been settled was very irritating. It had been diff- cult for him to understand how Dorothy had be- come unmarried; it was no less difficult for him to comprehend how, having been unmarried, she should have become suddenly married again. But he accepted the fact, as he did most things from his wife, and to her satisfaction took fast hold of the essential, that there must be no admission of a doubt that Trescotte and Dorothy were truly man and wife. After a lunch hastily taken, Mrs. Courtenay, bid- ding her husband to make arrangements for their return to Newport that evening, prepared herself for two calls. One on the bishop to inform him of the result of her conference with Mr. Magrane, and to obtain, if possible, his approval of the policy she had de- termined upon, and thus remove all lingering doubts as to its morality. The bishop was highly pleased with the turn of affairs. He could see, he said, little, if any, difference between a common law marriage and one performed by a civil magis- trate. Neither, as all marriages should be, was a holy sacrament. Therefore, if so high an authority as Mr. Magrane was satisfied that a common law marriage had been contracted by Mr. Adams and the woman who now bore his name, then surely Mr. Trescotte and Dorothy were in precisely the same Comicboolkkxs