Should She Have Left Him? — page 199: what you’re looking at

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MOMENTOUS EVENTS. 193 cringes at your feet. What a contempt for it I have.” She left Trescotte amazed at her mood. The change Trescotte had spoken of as apparent in Dorothy had been noticed by Mrs. Trevor-Allen as well. After the event of the meeting of Mr. and Mrs. Adams in the Trescotte house on that Decem- ber afternoon, there could be no withholding of con- fidence from that lady. She had learned enough to make knowledge of all necessary. And when Mrs. Adams left the house, all was told her by Trescotte at Dorothy’s request. That afternoon was as embarrassing as any Tres- cotte had ever passed. It was more so than the morning of nine years previous, in that little town of Switzerland, when he had married Elsie, for then he saw a way out. Nowhe didn’t. Adams had left immediately upon the dénouement. Mrs. Adams was compelled to remain until she recovered strength enough to go. When she did, she was accompanied by the discreet and trusty Downs, who went with her to the station and saw her comfortably bestowed on her journey to Buffalo. In the meantime Tres- cotte was immured in his library, alone with his thoughts, left to ponder upon the extraordinary happenings of chance; upon the singular situation of his wife, Dorothy, ministering to the needs of his once wife, Elsie; of the child, of whose existence he had no knowledge until so rudely and shockingly revealed to him, and who he now knew was the inno- cent cause of wrecking the happiness of two lives. Comicbooks.c€© 3