Should She Have Left Him? — page 145: what you’re looking at

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A CRITICAL POINT. 139 marriage title had never been mentioned in the Courtenay family, and of it Hilda was as ignorant as Waldemar. But with the wedding came the necessity for action. The question was, should or should they not present themselves at the ceremony and the reception. Trescotte laid it before Dorothy, thereby greatly distressing her. If her father and mother and the bishop were satisfied as to the integrity of their relations, why should not the world be? Her husband told her all his doubts and apprehensions. It was like beginning all over again. Dorothy had rested so secure that revival of this question was almost as much of a shock as the revelation had been. However, she comprehended that all of Tres- cotte’s concern was for herself, and that sweetened the bitterness of it. The end of the conference was the conclusion that self-imposed isolation should be the policy, and to this conclusion Dorothy came uninfluenced by Trescotte, who contented himself with laying his apprehensions before her, asking her to reason it out for herself, promising to abide by any decision she might come to. That is why they were represented by an expen. sive jewel at the wedding. Comicboolkkxs C@© 3