"What kind of answer is that?" Durkin demanded, his face turning ugly.
"We were just playing house," Emily said, quickly.
"Then why did you get up so fast when you saw me?" Durkin asked. "Is there something in that house you don't want me to see?"
Robert shook his head, his eyes on the ground.
"Speak up! I asked you a question."
"We were just pretending," Robert said.
For an instant the man and the two children stood with the doll house between them. They were each aware that they had started a game that must be played out now to the bitter end, no matter how frightening it became.
"We'll soon know!" Durkin said.
Durkin bent swiftly, and without glancing at the children, picked up the house, and raised it until the ground floor windows were on a level with his eyes.
He stared in.