Girl to Come Home to (2014)
“And so Jessica sulked in a dark corner of the gallery without a gallant to comfort her lonely state.
She had not taken any of the girls with her because she felt her part in the drama she was expecting to play would be more effective if she went alone and slid unawares, as it were, into the vacant seat beside her former beau. But just before the meeting began, the other girls of her “gang,” as she called it, came into the church and, finding no seats downstairs, went grumbling up the stairs to ...find her. They could not understand why she had put them off and refused to go with them. And so when they had found her, they squeezed into a seat across the aisle from where she was sitting, in behind a post where they could scarcely see the platform, and sat staring around them.
“Say, are you sure Jerry is going to speak here tonight?” whispered Emma Galt to Alida Hopkins. “He isn’t down there on the platform, and there are quite a lot of people sitting up there behind the pulpit.”MoreLess
She had not taken any of the girls with her because she felt her part in the drama she was expecting to play would be more effective if she went alone and slid unawares, as it were, into the vacant seat beside her former beau. But just before the meeting began, the other girls of her “gang,” as she called it, came into the church and, finding no seats downstairs, went grumbling up the stairs to ...find her. They could not understand why she had put them off and refused to go with them. And so when they had found her, they squeezed into a seat across the aisle from where she was sitting, in behind a post where they could scarcely see the platform, and sat staring around them.
“Say, are you sure Jerry is going to speak here tonight?” whispered Emma Galt to Alida Hopkins. “He isn’t down there on the platform, and there are quite a lot of people sitting up there behind the pulpit.”MoreLess
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