In Sight of St. Paul's — page 46: what you’re looking at

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LOVE MAKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES, 4} and was confident she could bring ‘her big blonde lover to the point any moment that she wished. ‘‘TIsn’t this alovely view, Mr. Fletcher ?’’ she asked, demurely, waving her hand toward the really exqui- site panorama outspread before them. But Gillie was too disgruntled to reply with any- thing but a perfunctory nod. ‘‘T shouldn’t like to tumble down there, would you?’’ asked Gracie, with .a glance from her blue eyes, which immediately put his bad humor to flight. “Tt don’t-know. I—I’ve fallen deeper than that.’’ He meant in love, and Gracie knewit. But, al- though she smiled and blushed a little, she pretended not to understand. ‘‘Deeper than that!’’ she echoed, in a tone of sur- prise. ‘‘I wonder you were not smashed to pieces!’ “Tt does make me feel a bit chippy,’’ he answered, slangily, but quite truthfully. Gracie looked up at him archly. ‘Wasn't it a terrible shock when—when you landed ?”’ “T haven’t got there yet.’’ ‘Are you looking forward to it ?”’ “Well, it’s—it’s bound to come,’’ asseverated Gillie, with a confidence he was far from feeling. ‘‘You can’t keep falling forever, you know.”’’ | ‘Won't it be a relief when it’s all over!’ ex- claimed Gracie, sympathetically, and as she felt a lit- (G0) Ecomicbooks