Should She Have Left Him? — page 127: what you’re looking at

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THE BISHOP TO THE RESCUE, .- 12 And the doctor went his way, leaving Mrs. Courte- nay with a feeling of utter helplessness. She was forced to confess that she had been defeated in every effort to take Dorothy from Trescotte by methods that were not public. She thought, and with satisfaction, that as yet knowledge of the affair was confined to a small circle—a few friends who would not talk. And it was clear that before the knowledge crept out she must forward Hilda’s wed- ding with all possible speed. It was to occur in October, but the date was not definitely fixed. That she must attend to as soon as Waldemar returned from Saratoga, by which time she hoped to bring about such complications as would prevent the possibility of a rupture. In the meantime she did not know but that it would be the better plan, since Dorothy would not leave Trescotte willingly, to devote her energies to keeping the truth a secret until after Hilda’s wedding at least. The thought flashed over her mind that such plan would be a tom- promise with duty, and that involved in it would be the necessity of a seeming acquiescence in the relation Dorothy was maintaining. This troubled her. She could not discuss the question with her husband. If it were one relating to property, the organization of a stable, or the proper arrangement of a dinner, his advice would be of weight; but in this matter of a daughter who was married and yet not married, a wife and yet not a wife, he would be beyond his depth, and would suggest nothing better than insanity. Comicloo S C@ 3}