Should She Have Left Him? — page 95: what you’re looking at

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A DIPLOMATIC MOTHER. 89 his understanding of them, it gave his wife an erroneous impression, “Why, she is positively blasphemous!” exclaimed that lady, much horrified. ’ltats wuat | told her,” said Mr. Courtenay, much pleased to find his view sustained by his wife, and by the same word. “The troubles must have turned her head,” con- tinued the lady. “There!” cried the old gentleman energetically. ‘“ Now we are down to the practical consideration. There is the reason why I thought it necessary to send for you so hurriedly. I think she should be immediately visited by specialists.” Mrs. Courtenay stared at her husband dumbly. Her own remark was a mere figure of speech. “You see,” continued the husband, “ you can't account for the position Dorothy has taken upon any other ground. She insists that she is wholly responsible for her determination not to be sep- arated from Trescotte. He, in the very beginning, concluded that she would leave him, and she insists it was she who persuaded him to the other view. Now, when you finda girl like Dorothy, brought up as she has been, carefully guarded against radical and destructive ideas, a Courtenay, into whose blood is blended that of the Van Allens, both families having centuries of conservatism behind them, deliberately entertaining and acting upon such views as Dorothy expresses, why there is only one conclusion to reach —her reason is dethroned—temporarily, however, Comicboolkkxs C@ 3