Should She Have Left Him? — page 42: what you’re looking at

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30 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? swept over her face so deep and poignant, that he regretted he had used so little delicacy in forcing her position to her attention. At this moment Trescotte, who without comfort had been pacing the long corridor, entered the room. Dorothy sprang from her seat, crossed rapidly to him, and laying both her hands upon his, looked up into his face, asking: | “‘ Harry, is it your wish to be rid of me?” It flashed across the suspicious lawyer mind of Magrane that she thought she was the victim of an intrigue. Such was not the thought of Trescotte. He saw what the lawyer did not see: lifted brown eyes shining with love of him. Though Magrane was there, though Dorothy was not his wife, though he had no rights, he embraced her passionately as he murmured: “Wishe The mere thought of separation has broken my heart!” Dorothy freed herself sufficiently to turn a triumphant face to Magrane. _ Why should the lawyer have accepted that triumphant look as a challenge? Yet he did, for soing to Trescotte, he said: ‘“‘T ask that you leave me for a moment or two with—this lady?” Dorothy did not fail to note that the lawyer had avoided speaking of her as Trescotte’s wife, and she resented it, as was plainly seen by the flash of her eyes. She faced Magrane, as for battle, as Tres- cotte passed into the adjoining room. Comicboolkkxs