Should She Have Left Him? — page 131: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIII. LAW SUPPORTS THE CHURCH. WHEN the bishop’s suggestion was put before Mr. Magrane, that gentleman thought possibly there was something in it. He wondered why it had not occurred to him. Yet he saw great diff- culties in establishing the fact. A judicial deter- mination could only be reached through a suit at law. And who would bring it? If Trescotte and Dorothy would sue each other for divorce perhaps the validity of the Adams-Hallock marriage could be brought in and determined, but if they were willing to proceed to such extraordinary means to establish the validity of their own marriage, the result must be that a huge scandal would be spread out for the public delectation, involving the sacred Courtenay family. Mrs. Courtenay dismissed that idea summarily. Well, then, it was among the possibilities that Mrs. Adams might be persuaded to bring a suit against Mr. Adams for the support of her children, or abandonment, but the lawyer judged that to be very doubtful, in view of the lady’s admission that she still loved Adams and desired nothing so much as a restoration of relations between herself and 125 Comiclooe ‘S