She ought to be told even if only in justice to her.

If you don't tell her someone else will, or, what's worse, she'll hear of it through the newspapers." "Ah, I never thought of that!" exclaimed the judge, visibly perturbed at the suggestion about the newspapers.
"Don't you agree with me ?" demanded Stott, appealing to Mrs.
Rossmore, who emerged from the house at that instant.

"Don't you think your daughter should be informed of what has happened ?" "Most assuredly I do," answered Mrs.Rossmore determinedly.

"The judge wouldn't hear of it, but I took the law into my own hands.
I've cabled for her." "You cabled for Shirley ?" cried the judge incredulously.

He was so unaccustomed to seeing his ailing, vacillating wife do anything on her own initiative and responsibility that it seemed impossible.
"You cabled for Shirley ?" he repeated.
"Yes," replied Mrs.Rossmore triumphantly and secretly pleased that for once in her life she had asserted herself.