I do believe he was all but sheddin' tears.

Sympathy like that I appreciate." As a matter of fact, Mr.Ellery had just seen Grace Van Horne pass that window.

She had not seen him, but for the moment he was back in that disgusting study, making a frenzied toilet in the dusk and obliged to overhear remarks pointedly personal to himself.
Grace left the parsonage soon after the supposed tramp disclosed his identity.

Her farewells were hurried and she firmly refused Mrs.
Coffin's not too-insistent appeal to return to the house "up street" and have supper.

She said she was glad to meet Mr.Ellery.The young minister affirmed his delight in meeting her.