I Forbid the Banns! — page 165: what you’re looking at

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ON THE BEAST. Isc He put his hand at the back of her shapely head and kissed her on the mouth. At the same instant there came from the two-inch open space of a door to the right a gurgling laugh. He became aware of the fact that the handmaiden of the house had concealed herself behind that door for the pur- pose of hearing and seeing all that took place between Miss Lancaster and, as the girl would probably say, in describing the scene at some future date, her young man. He would, he reflected, become known in the row of houses, before the week was out, as Miss Lancaster’s young man. The reflection was not a pleasing one. Gomichbooks (E(0)