Should She Have Left Him? — page 190: what you’re looking at

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184 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEST Him? She was so pathetic in her earnestness that Dor- othy, to conceal her own tears, bent over her and kissed her and whispered: “‘I know that; I’m sure ob it.” Suddenly a thought crossed her mind and it must be admitted accompanied with a pang of jealousy. ‘“Have you seen Mr. Trescotte?”’ Fie came into the reception room when, 1 was there,” replied Mrs. Adams somewhat distressed. “But he did not recognize me and I did not make myself known. I do not want tosee him. It is embarrassing enough to come to you.” Dorothy bent her head in a tumult of rushing thought and alarm. She did not fear separation from Trescotte. She believed Mrs. Adams and trusted Trescotte, but she was apprehensive. There was the threatened scandal, the publicity, the gossip, and while she was very grateful to Mrs. Adams and felt sincere, active sympathy, still she wished Mrs. Adams was out of the house, out of all chance of meeting Trescotte. She wondered fora brief instant if a desire to see Trescotte was not really the mean- ing of Elsie’s visit, but she dismissed the idea as unworthy herself and of Mrs. Adams. The little boy, tired of a conversation from which he could extract no amusement, sat himself on the floor between the two women and played with the scattered sheets of music that had fallen from the stand. Had Dorothy known the relation this inno- cent lad bore to the tangle they were all involved in, what a complicating force he was in Elsie’s prob- Comicboolkk<s C@ 3