Should She Have Left Him? — page 234: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VI. HILDA RETURNS HOME. HILDA was saved. For what? A joyless exist- ence with a man whom she loathed and despised from the bottom of her bitter soul. The next step was the subject of an earnest dis- cussion between Trescotte and Dorothy the next morning. Trescotte was urgent in his opinion that Hilda should return to her own home as soon as possible, and thus avoid the possibility of a scanda- lous talk. Whatever arrangements Hilda wanted to make for her future life, in his judgment, could better be initiated from her home than elsewhere. And Dorothy agreed with him. After a night’s sleep Hilda was in a better frame of mind to look upon her situation. As I have had occasion to remark, I do not pretend to understand the inconsistencies and contradictions of the female heart. And so without attempted explanation, I merely state that Hilda awoke at once glad and regretful. She was glad to find herself under the protecting Trescotte wing, safe from the fascina- tions of adorable English noblemen, and regretful that the particular adorable English nobleman, fas- cinating to her, was disappointed in his enterprise 228 Comicboolkxs C@ 5}