Her Faithful Knight — page 185: what you’re looking at

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. The Blow Falls. ae ¢:) yet mentioned. It would seem a reproach and a bitter reminder to her, Dorothy thought, in Phyllis’ neglected and forsaken condition. So she merely told her that she was going to Penzance, and that there was now no more need for worrying about money, as she had accepted an- other engagement which would last a long time. “And so, as you want change, dear,” Dorothy wrote, “and Nurse Rose tells me in her letters that you will be able to travel next week, I want you to come under her care to some nice, bright rooms I have taken for you opposite the sea here, and to wait in Plymouth until I come back to you, in a very few days’ time. I am sending twenty pounds instead of five this week, for I shall have plenty of money in my new engagement, and you are to have just everything you want, my darling.” But, although she wrote so brightly and appeared quite cheerful and interested while shopping in the town with Mrs. Stourton-Chepe, there were moments—many, many moments—when Dorothy felt she would give ten years of her life to retract her promise, and be free again. Now and then some look of this flashed into her eyes, and was legible there even to the hard-voiced, worldly woman who was her constant companion during those last two days before the wedding. “T do believe,” Mrs. Stourton-Chepe exclaimed once in a low voice, suddenly laying her hand on Dorothy’s in a glove-shop while the attendant was looking for some- thing on the shelves, “I do believe you are really in love with some one else all the time.” Dorothy blushed. “TI once met a man I think I could have loved,” she said. “Nothing more than that ?” “Nothing more.’ “Oh, well, of course we have all of us married women Commicaoolks