Should She Have Left Him? — page 208: what you’re looking at

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MOMENTOUS EVENTS. 195 “TI did not know of his existence until this after- noon.” “I am glad to hear you say so,’ said Dorothy, still in her hard, severe tone. ‘‘To have learned ‘that you knew of his existence and had been so indifferent to him would have lessened you in my esteem.” Trescotte looked at Dorothy so astounded and so pained that Mrs. Trevor-Allen was filled with pity for him. “And now that you do know that he exists, what?” demanded Dorothy. “It complicates matters,” replied Trescotte sadly. “Will you take him to your own care?” Her question was asked almost fiercely. ‘He has a mother.” ‘And I am not that mother!” Trescotte, too much distressed to appreciate at its full significance this cry, went to the window and looked out. But light flooded the mind of Mrs. Trevor-Allen. She saw that a profound jealousy possessed Dorothy; that with all the force of her deep love for Trescotte, she resented the inexorable fact that her husband was the father of a child of which she was not the mother. It was a strange manifestation. Dorothy knew of the previous mar- riage, she knew of the five months Trescotte had lived with Elsie, and had not resented it. Indeed, she had received Elsie without a pang of jealousy. Yet when the boy, a natural issue of that brief union, was. presented she was transformed. Trescotte COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)