Should She Have Left Him? — page 96: what you’re looking at

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go SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? for there is insanity neither in the blood of the Van Allens, nor the Courtenays.” The summoned waiter appeared and received his order, the while Mrs. Courtenay went into another brown study. Possibly her husband had given the explanation of Dorothy’s strange course, and wouldn't that be the best excuse for withdrawal for a while? | “Well,” she said aloud, more in answer to her own thoughts than as addressing her husband. “I'll have a talk with her first. After that, perhaps it will be well to have Dr. Balkin see her.” Dr. Balkin was the family physician, much trusted and respected by Mrs. Courtenay—very skillful, very brusque, and given to plain speech, whether the same was agreeable or not. Dorothy was a great favorite with the old doctor, and had been from girlhood. | “Why wouldn't it be better for Dorothy to come to us here?” asked Mrs. Courtenay. “Tt would,” returned her husband, ‘but she won't come if sent for. No, my dear, call upon her first and form your judgment. [ think it will coin- cide with mine.” Breakfast over Mrs. Courtenay lost no time in going to Dorothy. The Trescotte mansion, for such it was, pleased her. She could not but admit that it would be desperately hard to give up such a house. She could not call to her memory any house of her acquaintance more perfect in its appointments, more richly, yet tastefully fuinished, Comicbooks.c© 5}