Should She Have Left Him? — page 255: what you’re looking at

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342 SHOULD SHE HAWE LEFT HIM? place to Mr. Magrane and went to his club an hour earlier than usual, where, to relieve his feelings, he swore at the waiters. “IT have been thinking over that proposal of yours to adopt the boy of Mrs. Adams,” said the lawyer, introducing the subject which was the excuse of his visit—“thinking it over very carefully.” “Qh, that,” replied Mrs. Trevor-Allen indiffer- ently. “Mrs. Trescotte wants me to take no steps for the present.” “You have talked to her about it?” asked Mr. Magrane in astonishment. “She overheard our conversation last night and afterward asked me todo nothing about it for a while.” “Did she tell you why she wanted delay?” | “No.” “It is singular, since a reconciliation between Mr. and Mrs. Adams would help her own situation so much.” “I do not understand that she opposes it,” said the lady, ‘only that she wants it deferred for the present.” “Well, we may talk about it all events,” said the lawyer. “I’m quite enamored of the idea.” “Then you see no objections?” _ “None, except those the mother may make, and those you say may be overcome.” “By convincing her that the sacrifice she is asked to make is for the good of the boy.” The lawyer did not reply, but was busy with his GOMMGIOO cS (GO)