[Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips]@TWC D-Link bookSusan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise CHAPTER V 7/39
Don't you really understand ?" Susan shook her head. "He--he betrayed her--and left her--and then everybody knew because you came." Susan's violet-gray eyes rested a grave, inquiring glance upon her cousin's face.
"But if he betrayed her---- What does 'betray' mean? Doesn't it mean he promised to marry her and didn't ?" "Something like that," said Ruth.
"Yes--something like that." "Then _he_ was the disgrace," said the dark cousin, after reflecting. "No--you're not telling me, Ruth.
_What_ did my mother do ?" "She had you without being married." Again Susan sat in silence, trying to puzzle it out.
Ruth lifted herself, put the pillows behind her back.
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