And for many people at the small gathering last June, that was exactly the point.

It was not immediately clear whether the boy's father had been at the gathering.

The film begins at a gathering to open a building.

He'd done that one at the Gathering, several times, and knew pretty much how they'd take it.

The students at the gathering were eager for their summer to begin.

The young man looked at the gathering, then turned back to the duke.

At the gathering for the start of a trip there should be a safety talk first.

She'd met a few men like that at social gatherings.

But on the way, they stopped at a gathering of their friends, and she, he remembered, went off with the others.

Would they assume he was at a gathering and hadn't yet come home?