Should She Have Left Him? — page 74: what you’re looking at

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68 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? had agreed to leave Saratoga at once, he made this proposition, she firmly declared such a course to be impossible. “What we have agreed upon,’ she insisted, “ was so agreed because it seemed to us to be right—the only thing under the circumstances we could do. If anybody is wrong it is not us, it is society—the world—which, having made it possible for us to fall into this position, would, under an arbitrary law of its own making, punish us, who are innocent, by separation. No; if we go abroad, it will appear as if we had fled from the consequences of an evil we admitted. We must not confess what we do not intend, by running away.” Trescotte yielded to the inexorable logic that flight was confession. Moreover, he saw it was cowardice, and against that his soul revolted. Yet they must go somewhere, and the conditions would be the same wherever they went. So singu- larly strong are the influences of custom and habit, that it was with a start of surprise that he heard Dorothy, who had partly divined his thoughts, whisper: “Let us go home.” It had not occurred to him that it was possible to reside in New York City in the summer months. Dorothy’s suggestion was the solution of the diff- culties, but not of the problem. Mr. Magrane did not see Mr. Courtenay on the night of his return to New York, nor for several days thereafter. The Courtenay family were in Newport, Comicbookks C@ 3