Her Faithful Knight — page 60: what you’re looking at

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56 A Story of London. ““Out with your husband!’ she repeated. ‘Not me! I’ve been out with your young man; though, for that matter, he’s as much mine as yours.’ “T thought she had been drinking and drew back. ““You cannot be in your right senses,’ I said, ‘to ad- dress such language to Mr. Trevelyan’s wife.’ “She laughed again, louder than before. ““His wife!’ she shouted. ‘Girls, that’s good, isn’t it? Sergius Trevelyan’s wife is in America, as you and I and all the company know quite well; that farce of be- ing married to him is played out now. Anybody can see he is sick of it and you, too.’ ““T shrank with horror from the woman, and glanced round at the other women’s faces. They were inter- ested and inquisitive, but not one showed the least sym- pathy with me or desire to defend nie from such a foul - attack on my name. “*You all of you know,’ I saad: as steadily as I could, trying to stifle a horrid fear that was gathering at my heart, ‘that I was married to Mr. Trevelyan, at Sheffield, before last Christmas.’ “There was a pause, filled up with Miss Montgom- ery’s mocking laughter. Then the woman who had first told me about her spoke in tones that were not unkindly. ““We all know,’ she said, ‘that Mr. Trevelyan went through some sort of ceremony with you, because he toid us so, and asked us to treat you as his wife, as you were so madly in love with him you couldn’t live without him, and had some idea that even an illegal marriage was better than nothing at all.’ ““He—my husband—told you that! I gasped. ““Fvery one of ous. He said he was in for it, even if it was a bigamy case, because, although you knew quite well he was married, it was a fad of yours.’ Eomichook (C@)