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"I will go to my father I will never come back to you" And with these words she rose, threw off his e cry ran, like a terrified child, out of the room

He sat down exhausted by his eht she had evoked in that one evil word The publicity, the disgrace, the wrong to Holy Church--ah, that was the cruelest wound! His orong was hard enough, but that he, ould gladly die for the Church, should put her to open shah it killed hiht eye offended it must be plucked out He must throw off his cassock, and turn away from the sacred aisles; he must--he could not say the word; he would wait a little Dora would not leave hi suspense Nothing for an hour or more broke it--no footfall, no sound of command or complaint He was finally in hopes that Dora slept Then he was called to lunch, and heit alone Dora sent no excuse for her absence, and he could not trust himself to make inquiry about her In the e drive to the door, and Dora, with her jewel-case in her hand, entered it and was driven away The sight astounded hi The woman answered his questions sullenly She said "Mrs Stanhope had gone to Mrs Denning's, and had left orders for her trunks to be sent there" Beyond this she was silent and ignorant No sympathy for either husband or as in her heart Their quarrel was interfering with her own plans; she hated both of them in consequence

In the meantime Dora had reached her ho, and her attitude raised again in Dora's heart the passion which had provoked the step she had taken She wept like a lost child She exclai Basil's wife forever and ever She reproached herher to marry while she was only a child She said she had been cruelly used in order to get the farief at her supposed sacrifice when her father came home Her case was then won With her arainst his heart, her tears and entreaties on his lips, Ben Denning had no feeling and no care for anyone but his daughter He took her view of things at once "She HAD been badly used It WAS a shairl like Dora to ser her up in a convent" Dora's tears and complaints fired him beyond reason He promised her freedom whatever it cost him