Should She Have Left Him? — page 79: what you’re looking at

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66 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? had fled the city, was, however satisfactory to the grocer and the butcher, erratic. Those whose con- tiguity gave them opportunity for observation, but whose social rank made them uncertain as to aristo- cratic procedure, when they saw Mr. and Mrs. Tres- cotte sauntering in the Park early in the morning, and driving together in the afternoon, concluded that it was fashion’s new caprice as to the honey- moon. Of one thing, however, they were in no doubt. A more loverlike husband than Mr. Tres- cotte no woman could wish; and the man who did not adore the wife who received his attentions with such tenderness did not deserve the woman who had given her life to him. But little recked Trescotte and Dorothy what these people said or thought of them. It was neither to set a new fashion nor to gratify curiosity that they had deviated from the paths of convention. When these two young people had determined to their own satisfaction what their duty to themselves and each other was, they set about considering what sort of a life they would lead. It was in this dis- cussion that Trescotte made the discovery that in the determination they had reached they had by no means solved their problem. There was an ugly factor, of which they had taken no heed—that duty the world and society demanded as their due. In a moment of passionate exaltation they had sworn . devotion anew and had determined to live for each other and each other alone, regardless of all opinions. But Trescotte, his mind now restored to its normal GOMMGIOO cS (GO)