Should She Have Left Him? — page 39: what you’re looking at

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4 GIRL BECOMES A WOMAN. 33 he motioned to Magrane to occupy it, and without further word went out of the room. Magrane did not find it easy to begin his revela- tion. When he did, a fine instinct warned him to tell the tale baldiy, fact for fact, without sympathy for the woman before him. He had a listener who was breathless in her atten- tion, who followed the development step by step with burning eyes, who made no comments, who asked no questions, who showed no traces of emotion, except in her rapid transitions of expres- sion, and these, skillful as he was, Magrane could not interpret. When he had finished Dorothy asked almost sternly in her intensity : ‘“ Have you told me all?” “Everything! Without reservation.” “And you believe Harry—my husband to be without blame?” “ Entirely so.” His answer seemed to give Dorothy such satis- faction that the idea crept into Magrane’s mind that apprehension for Trescotte had been her only concern, and that she did not realize her own position. | She sat with her hands clasped upon her knees and her head bent in deep thought, so profound as to seem to be oblivious of the lawyer’s presence. Magrane studied her. He noted the symmetrical head, the waving brown hair with its reddish tinge, the beautiful, delicate lines of her profile, the firm Comicbookks C@ 3