A Social Meteor — page 73: what you’re looking at

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A SUCIAL METEOR. -63 And yet, this man was handsomer than Jack, and in every way calculated to make her a more desirable husband. Nine women out of ten would not have looked at Jack when Lee was around, but she was that tenth. As Ray had said, her resolve never to marry was a foolish one, for she might find contentment, at least, in matrimony. She would have no right to think of any one then but her husband, and there was a possibility that she might find happi- ness, too, after she had outlived all memories of the past. Why should she not risk it, at any rate? Other women had “loved and lost” before now, and had lived to make good wives and mothers. Then a distorted vision of Jack rose up in her mind. How she had loved him! Would she be doing right in giving herself to this man, when she knew she would probably never be able to feel toward him as a wife should toward her hus- band? If she had only never met Jack. But it was too late to wish that now. Then she thought of the woman Ray had told her about, and she wondered vaguely who she was. She would write and find out. Then she asked herself bitterly, why she should bother about any person or thing EORNICELOOC) SS (E@)