Should She Have Left Him? — page 51: what you’re looking at

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EVOLUTION. 45 Unconsciously he expressed a thought aloud. “It has worked a great change in you.” “Yes,” she replied, almost without emotion, “a great change. I am a woman now; not the giri you parted from after breakfast.” Trescotte’s despair and distress was pictured on his face. She took his hand in her own and intui- tively reading his mind, said: “Tt is your thought of me that is distressing you —of my future, my position in the world, of what people will think of me, of what I fear they will think of me. Have you no thought of yourself? ” “Myself?” There was contempt in his tone. “What of myself? What is there, except the loss of your love and of your life to mine, I cannot easily brush aside?” Dorothy pressed the hand she was aka “TI do not reproach you.” “No. Were you to show emotion, I would be relieved. It is your calmness that distresses me. As you are not wanting in emotion, it must be the calmness of despair.” ~“You are much mistaken,” she replied firmly. “I do not despair. Long before Mr. Magrane had finished the story, I had appreciated it in all its relations, had thought it all out, and determined upon my duty.” | Trescotte looked at her inquiringly. “ There is nothing for which you could be blamed. Could you have anticipated this; had you had knowledge which you concealed; had you even Comicbookks C@©