2962873 Listening at the door, 1896 (engraving) by Thomson, Hugh (1860-1920); Private Collection; (add.info.: From Chapter 38 of \'Sense and Sensibility\' by Jane Austen (1775-1817) first published 1818. This edition published in 1921 by Macmillan and Co. using Thomson\'s plates from 1896. Nancy Steele tells Elinor how she heard her sister Lucy and Edward re-affirm their engagement: ???a! Miss Dashwood, do you think people make love when anybody else is by? Oh! for shame? ??To be sure you must know better than that.??(Laughing affectedly.) ?????o, no; they were shut up in the drawing-room together, and all I heard was only by listening at the door.??; British, out of copyright.