Should She Have Left Him? — page 241: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

CHAPTER VI. HILDA RETURNS HOME. HILDA was saved. For what? A joyless « ence with a man whom she loathed and des; from the bottom of her bitter soul. _ The next step was the subject of an earnest cussion between Trescotte and Dorothy the morning. Trescotte was urgent in his opinion Hilda should return to her own home as soc possible, and thus avoid the possibility of a sc: lous talk. Whatever arrangements Hilda ws to make for her future life, in his judgment, « better be initiated from her home than elsew And Dorothy agreed with him. After a night’s sleep Hilda was in a better f of mind to look upon her situation. As I have occasion to remark, I do not pretend to under: the inconsistencies and contradictions of the fe heart. And so without attempted explanati merely state that Hilda awoke at once glad regretful. She was glad to find herself under protecting Trescotte wing, safe from the fas tions of adorable English noblemen, and regr that the particular adorable English nobleman cinating to her, was disappointed in his enter sa8 ~ s COMICMHOOOKS.CO