Should She Have Left Him? — page 146: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER II. MRS. DEEKMAN’S DINNER, THE wisdom of Trescotte was soon made mani. fest. Society had not long settled into its autumn routine before a whisper went its rounds that there was something wrong in the Trescotte marriage. No one knew just what it was, but whatever it was, was wrong. The facts, that the Trescotte’s had opened their city house in mid-summer instead of herding with their kind on mountain and seaside, and that they were conspicuous by their absence at the Waldemar nuptials, were put in evidence, and people were left to draw their own conclusions. And people, not certain what conclusions they should draw, nevertheless concluded things were very bad. It is a charming quality of human nature that we always take the most pessimistic view of our neighbor’s affairs. By and by the whisper took the more definite form of assertion that it had been discovered that Trescotte had a wife, other than Dorothy, hidden away these many years, who, learning of the Courtenay alliance, refused to be longer placated with money. Then this was fol- lowed up with the positive statement that all of 140 Comicbookk<s C@ 3}