Should She Have Left Him? — page 197: what you’re looking at

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MOMENTOUS EVENTS. 1gI guish for lack of his attention. Though Mrs. Wal- demar’s chair in their box at the autumn season of Opera was always occupied, that of Hermann was nearly always vacant. But as Hilda did not com- plain, Mrs. Courtenay could not interfere. The world said behind Hilda’s back that Hilda Walde- mar had grown unbearably insolent since her marriage. Hilda went to see Dorothy within twenty-four hours of her landing and frequently thereafter. She was more tender and affectionate with her sister than was her wont, and nestling the little stranger in her arms, dropped tears on its face she was ashamed to show. Dorothy saw the change in Hilda and could not tell what it was. A change in Dorothy was noticed by Hilda and neither could she penetrate that. Whatever these changes were they drew the two sisters closer together than they had ever been before. The first time Hilda went to see Dorothy she met Trescotte in the hall as she was leaving. “T want to ask you some questions,” she said, after she had lifted her cheek to be kissed by her brother-in-law. Divining what they would be, Trescotte took her into the library and closed the door. “There has been some trouble about your mar- tiage, Henry,’ she said, as she seated herself in a sarge easy-chair. “*Tell me about it.” “You have heard nothing, then?” he asked. “Only enough to know there was something,” she Comicbooks.€© 3