Should She Have Left Him? — page 203: what you’re looking at

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MOMENTOUS EVENTS. 197 he is with a great sorrow. What sympathy did you sive him when he needs so much?” Dorothy stared at her censor. Jealousy is selfish. Dorothy had a dim realization of the truth. “What is the highest duty of a wife? Is it not to sympathize with her husband when he is in trouble, to comfort him? It is especially your duty, sur- rounded as you are with such love and tenderness.” “That boy is his,” murmured Dorothy, and imme- diately conscious of the confession involved in her words. “He does not deny it.” “Ts that nothing?” whimpered Dorothy. “Nothing that you have to complain of,” calmly went on Mrs. Trevor-Allen. ‘‘Your time to com- plain was when Mr. Trescotte told you he had lived for five months with Mrs. Adams as his wife. When in the knowledge of it you accepted him, you for- gave everything, even the inevitable result of such a union.” “‘O Lou!” cried Dorothy. ‘‘You do not under. stand me.” “I understand everything, even that which you think, but are ashamed tosay. I have little patience with you. Here you are, blessed as few women are, with a superior man for a husband, who loves you from the bottom of his noble heart, who surrounds you with all that love can give you and the protec- tion tenderness can invent—who makes your life a poem, one continued strain of delightful music, whose devotion is constant and never ceasing, and Comicloeo cS C@ 3}