In Sight of St. Paul's — page 37: what you’re looking at

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32 LOVE MAKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. CHAPTER II. LOVE MAKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. After Mrs. Dell had given vent to this impassioned tirade, Tom Chichester stood motionless for a mo- ment in bewilderment. He felt instinctively that there was something behind all this which he did not understand. Her words bore the impress of truth. She knew something, he felt assured, something which might bring sorrow to his family. But, before he could question her further, and sat- isfy himself whether her threat was baseless or not, there came the sound of voices and laughter upon the stair-way which led to the roof. In another moment there emerged from the en- trance a group of three—first Harry, then a very pretty girl, Gracie Chichester, and finally, a broad- shouldered, stalwart blonde young man, in immacu- late evening dress, with an enormous bunch of var- denias in his button-hole. Mrs. Dell’s arm, which had been tragically ex- tended, dropped to her side, and she turned, with a forced smile, to greet the new-comers. Gracie caine forward with an exclamation of ‘‘Oh! cComicbooks (E(0) m