Should She Have Left Him? — page 98: what you’re looking at

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ws od - - - CHAPTER IV. A DIPLOMATIC MOTHER. Mrs. COURTENAY complied with her husband’s imperative demand. The demand, however, did not put her in an amiable frame of mind. It did not seem proper that one of her rank and social im- portance should be subject to the calls of such a modern, “hustling” thing as the telegraph. A letter by mail would have been more decorous, even {there had been thereby a sacrifice of time. She knew of nothing in their affairs demanding such Vulgar haste. Nor was it proper that she should travelalone. Since her marriage she had never been on cars or steamers unaccompanied by her husband. However, she overcame the latter objection by taking her maid with her, and her husband's valet, who was conveniently married to that maid. Then, $0 unsatisfactory is the telegraph, she neither knew the meaning of her journey nor the duration of her stay. Consulting Hilda, that young woman, wise in her generation, said: “Go prepared for anything.” Mrs. Courtenay, within four hours after the time she had received her husband’s telegram, was en route for New York with five trunks, two servants, 85 CONnIICOO @ cS (GO)