Should She Have Left Him? — page 138: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

132 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? family is away and his household must be dis ordered.” A. strict regard for veracity compels me to note that Mrs. Courtenay said nothing about her hurried trip to Buffalo, and her endeavor to persuade Mrs. Adams to set up claims to Trescotte as a husband. It really was of no importance in view of the turn of affairs; 1t would have only complicated matters, and it is doubtful whether her motives would have been understood without a good deal of explana- tion. When it was time for her to return to her hotel, her own hired carriage was dismissed, and she drove back in that splendid equipage which had so excited her admiration, with Trescotte and Dorothy, and at the hotel there was a happy meeting with the father, in which the last vestige of bitterness was swept away. Mrs. Courtenay advised, and Mr. Courtenay urged, that the Trescottes should close their city house and visit Newport. The elder lady feared that the eccentricity of an open house in the summer months would excite remarks, something at this juncture to be avoided. Trescotte urged, in re- sponse, that the closing of it again after opening it for two weeks would excite quite as much remark, and being sustained by Dorothy, declined, saying that he was quite willing that the world should believe him ‘“‘spoons” on his wife, and of inventing a new way of spending the honeymoon. Trescotte had a better and more profound reason Comicloeo S C@ 5}