Grey and his family, but chiefly because it had wounded her self-
love that she, Miss Gascoigne, had not been consulted, and had had no
hand in bringing about the marriage.
Therefore she had determined to see it, and all concerning it, in the very
worst light to modify nothing, to excuse nothing. She had made up her
mind that things were to be so and so, and so and so they must of
necessity turn out. _Audi alteram partem_ was an idea that never
occurred, never had occurred, in all her life to Henrietta Gascoigne. In
fact, she would never have believed there could be "another side," since
she herself was not able to behold it.
Yet she had not a cruel nature, and the misery she endured during the
few minutes that she sat thinking of the blow that was about to fall on
Dr. Grey and his family, heaping on the picture every exaggerated
imagination of a mind always prone to paint things in violent colors,
was enough to atone for half the wrong she had done.
She started up like a guilty creature when the door opened, and Phillis
entered with a letter in her hand.
"Beg pardon, ma'am, I thought you were Mrs. Grey."
"She is just gone up stairs--will be back directly," said Miss Gascoigne,
anxious to keep up appearances to the last available moment.
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