Should She Have Left Him? — page 160: what you’re looking at

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154 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? vented Trescotte from accompanying her, and she was alone. As she passed through the lobbies, crowded with those who a month previously would have made her passage one of delay and difficulty by their salutations, she could not observe a single welcoming or friendly face. Upon the contrary, acquaintances looked over her head, and old friends turned their backs upon her. Stung to the quick as she was, her pride and lofty spirit served her. If there was heightened color in her face, there was regal haughtiness in her manner. She swept through the mass of skirts with a superb arrogance that would have delighted her mother, and wrung the heart strings of her husband, for he would have known what it had cost her to carry herself so bravely. This was the culmination of the slights and humiliations, and she knew now she had been sent to Coventry. Of course she had expected it; she had steeled herself for it ever since that day when the revelation was made, but it was so much harder to bear than she had thought it would be. It is all very well to sit in the quiet of your chamber and defy the world. It is very easy, then. But when you feel its contempt, what a different thing it is! How large the world is then, and how small you are! Mrs. Trevor-Allen observed Dorothy’s passage to her box. Her point of observance was too remote to have permitted her to have saluted Dorothy, 1f she had desired to do so. But she clapped her hands together lightly several times, causing an at- Comicbooks.c© 3