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96 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? should leave Trescotte and endure a life of seclu- sion, simply because it was right for her to do so, was firmly fixed in her mind, and if she had not been successful in impressing that idea upon Dorothy, her daughter had been no less unsuccess- ful in enforcing her contrary opinions. She felt that the right was with her and that, if she could not make Dorothy see it, the bishop could. If, in her arguments, she had mixed the moral with the social code, and had made ethics and society's Opinions interchangeable terms, it was only because of her own peculiar education. But it must be admitted that she was greatly concerned as to the influence to be exerted upon her own social stand- ing by the knowledge that one of her daughters was, in fact, living as a wife outside the legal bonds of wedlock; the influence upon Hilda’s contem- plated marriage with Waldemar; upon the daughter who was to come out two years hence; and upon the son who had graduated at Harvard that sum- mer, and who would enter society the coming winter. Dorothy, notwithstanding the misfortune which had befallen her, in her father’s home, with- drawn from society, might be an object of sym- pathy, even of avoidance, but she would not be a reproach to the family, which she certainly would be were she to continue her relations with Trescotte. When Mrs. Courtenay touched upon this phase of the question she made more of an impression upon Dorothy than she was aware. Had she Comicboolkkxs C@ 3