Should She Have Left Him? — page 58: what you’re looking at

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EVOLUTION. 45 Unconsciously he expressed a thought aloud. “It has worked a great change in you.” “Yes,” she replied, almost without emotion, “a great change. I am a woman now; not the girl you parted from after breakfast.” Trescotte’s despair and distress was pictured on his face. She took his hand in her own and intui- tively reading his mind, said: “It is your thought of me that is distressing you —of my future, my position in the world, of what people will think of me, of what I fear they will think of me. Have you no thought of yourself? ” “Myself?” There was contempt in his tone. “What of myself? What is there, except the loss of your love and of your life to mine, I cannot easily brush aside ?” Dorothy pressed the hand she was stroking. “TI do not reproach you.” “No. Were you to show emotion, I would be telieved. It is your calmness that distresses me. As you are not wanting in emotion, it must be the calmness of despair.” “‘You are much mistaken,” she replied firmty. “I do not despair. Long before Mr. Magrane had finished the story, I had appreciated it in all its relations, had thought it all out, and determined upon my duty.” Trescotte looked at her inquiringly. “ There is nothing for which you could be blamed. Could you have anticipated this; had you had knowledge which you concealed; had you even CONMUG JOO cS (GO)