Should She Have Left Him? — page 208: what you’re looking at

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202 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HAM? as a woman, and her excellence as a wife. This will created astonishment, and caused the matron mothers, who recognized in the new widow a formid- able quantity in their problems, over their teacups to comment: ‘No fool like an old fool,” and Mr. Magrane to say, with the applause of Mr. Trescotte, “Whatever the old fellow was, he appreciated a true woman when he found her.”’ Mr. Trevor-Allen was buried, and society attended in large numbers, just as if he had been the wisest and best of men. And Mrs. Trevor-Allen in robes of black, donned because con- vention demanded them, a very charming widow, laughed gayly without a single pretense of sorrow, ~ because she was not a hypocrite. Summer came and went. Society flitted from the city and flitted back. This summer the Trescottes did not keep open house in the city. A cottage on the coast of Maine had been purchased, and there also Mrs. Trevor-Allen went to spend the months supposed to be devoted to mourning. When all involved in this tale returned to the city, the con- ditions were unchanged. Adams was upon the Pacific Coast and Elsie was with her father. Nota step toward the unraveling of the tangle had been taken. One evening in the late autumn Mrs. Trevor- Allen and Mr. Magrane dined with the Trescottes. They met frequently at that table, now that Mrs. Trevor-Allen was withdrawn from society. The two were sitting apart after dinner while Mr. and Mrs, Trescotte were entertaining Mr. Courtenay, Comicbooks.c© 3