Dr. Janet of Harley Street / a novel by Arabella Kenealy.

  • Arabella Kenealy
Date:
1894
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Credit: Dr. Janet of Harley Street / a novel by Arabella Kenealy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    siveness. Had it been performed in church, it would have acquired a solemnity which under present circumstances it did not possess. Nothing seemed to her more terrible and impossible than that she should not love her husband. And nothing could make her love her husband, she thought, since he had so revealed himself to her. She had seen but little of the world, and had had no girl-friends, who might have taught her more conventional views of things. She had heard of divorce as coming to the relief of ill-mated couples, and, in her childish disposition of the difficulties that beset her, she considered this a simple and an eminently practical way out of them. De Richeville, she thought, might then, if he so wished, marry someone else. But she—she would never again marry. Her one experience should be final. She would live as Diana did, and, like her, die in dignified maiden- hood. So she sat down, with almost a smile upon her lips, and ate her luncheon with so determined and apparently well-pleased an appetite that her mother, watching her, was reassured. Neverthe- less, she fully recognised the necessity for not meeting with the Marquis. She had misgivings lest he should not be willing to accept her solution
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