Should She Have Left Him? — page 62: what you’re looking at

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EVOLUTION, 49 Trescotte hesitated in his reply, looking very hopeless. “You know,” she added, “all this is very serious to me, and I want to know all about it.” ‘““Why—why,” stammered Trescotte, not really knowing what it would do, for he had not looked beyond the separation, “ why, at least, it will show the world that you have cut off all relations as soon as your knowledge made them improper to you.” ‘“‘ Ah, yes, ‘the world.’”’ She gave to the phrase a peculiar inflection which Trescotte could not understand. “In other words, if I leave you now, I shall have secured so much respectability as the world will grant to one placed as I am.” Trescotte acquiesced by a sign, so pained by this evidence of Dorothy’s recognition of the limitations of that respectability that he could not speak. For the first time he felt a self-pity that he, of all persons, was compelled to force that recognition upon her. She went on remofselessly, as he could not help thinking. “And if I do leave you now, shall I be secured in the old position I held before? Will the doors of all the houses be opened to me that were open before? Shall I have the same friendships and companionships? Shall I be permitted to associate with the young girls as I used to do?” Trescotte could not answer. She had entered upon a field he had not explored, except vaguely under the cover of the phrase “ her ruined life.” “Or,” she went on relentlessly, “ will it not be, , = GOMMGIOO cS (GO)