Should She Have Left Him? — page 261: what you’re looking at

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A BLOW FOR FREEDOM. anc Hilda went home, and gathering her personal effects, went to Dorothy, asking a second time to be taken in. This time she did not leave a letter for Hermann. The Trescottes were embarrassed. Their own delicate position made them feel that Hilda, for her own sake as well as theirs, should have gone any- where but to them; that in the publicity of the divorce suit their own marital affairs would be dragged out into the sunlight; that they would be charged with having aided and abetted, even influ- enced, Hilda to the course she was pursuing. They were quite certain that Mrs. Courtenay, when she came to know of the divorce suit, would visit her anger and disappointment on them. Yet it never occurred to them to deny Hilda shelter, nor did they let her know their embarrassment. They were quite right, as it turned out, in their belief that Mrs. Courtenay would be angry with them. But Hilda averted the threatened storm as soon as its mutterings were heard, and in doing so showed a strength and a decision that demonstrated how great was the revolution that had been worked in her in the few months of her wedded life. ‘“Mother,” she said, when Mrs. Courtenay, first learning of Hilda’s suit as she did from the elder Waldemar, sought her to have the proceedings with- drawn forthwith, and had begun angry objurgations of Trescotte and Dorothy, who were both present; “mother, the less you have to say of this the better. When you blame Henry and Dorothy for anything Comicbookkxs C@ 3