CHAPTER XXVII CONCLUSION OF THE QUIET AFTERNOON.
It was during the discussion of the details of this enterprise that Georgie's mother, a short distance down the street, received a few female callers, who came by appointment to drink a glass of iced tea with her, and to meet the Rev.Mr.Kinosling.

Mr.Kinosling was proving almost formidably interesting to the women and girls of his own and other flocks.

What favour of his fellow clergymen a slight precociousness of manner and pronunciation cost him was more than balanced by the visible ecstasies of ladies.

They blossomed at his touch.
He had just entered Mrs.Bassett's front door, when the son of the house, followed by an intent and earnest company of four, opened the alley gate and came into the yard.

The unconscious Mrs.Bassett was about to have her first experience of a fatal coincidence.