Should She Have Left Him? — page 122: what you’re looking at

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116 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? in the failure of the plan which had taken her across the State, yet was her determination firm to rescue Dorothy from the false position she was in, if not for Dorothy’s sake alone, then for that of the younger members of her family, whose futures were yet to be made. But how? Appeals to her daughter were useless; Mrs. Adams refused to interfere. Would she have to adopt her husband’s theory, that Dorothy’s mind was unsettled? It really began to look so. Could she only separate Dorothy from Trescotte on any pretext, and sur- round her with the proper moral atmosphere, she was quite certain she could make the separation permanent. But Dr. Balkin, for whom she sent as soon after her return from Buffalo as she could, disposed of that idea. “Why, Mrs. Courtenay,” said that physician with his customary frankness, “‘if Dorothy is insane, it is a pity we all could not be touched with the same complaint. No one could be clearer-minded. She has wonderfully developed. Her troubles have strengthened her mind, not weakened it. Her health is superb. No physician or specialist having the slightest regard for his oath or his reputation would dare to do other than testify to her sanity.” “Do I understand you, doctor, to say that you justify Dorothy in the stand she has taken,” asked the lady, not a little vexed by the doctor’s decision of manner. | “That is a horse of another color,” replied the Comicloo® S C@© 3}