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BUT there could be no escape, for the very sufficient reason that the principal performer in such an interlude refused to perform. When the surgeon, in a roundabout fashion, broached the subject of making the attempt to her, Mary Mortimer would have nothing to do with it.
She preferred, she said, the misery of banishment and exile to being linked in England with the crimes, and atonements for them, of Richard Mortimer. There was nothing she could go through, now, any worse than that which she had already endured. It were better to put the distance of the world between herself and the villain Mortimer than to remain where she might at any moment be called upon to play the part of his wife.