The bell rang again.
"You'll have to!" Mrs. Brace said at last. "I won't let anybody in. I have to answer it!"
"You'll send them away—whoever it is—at once?"
"At once. I don't want you seen here, any more than you want to be seen!"
Lucille started toward the bedroom. At the first step she took, Mrs. Brace put a hand on her arm.
"That money!" she demanded, in a low whisper. "I'll take it."
"And do what I asked—stop attacking us?"
"Yes. Yes!"
Lucille gave her the money.
There were no lights in the bedroom. Lucille, for fear of stumbling or making a noise, stood to one side of the door-frame, close to the wall.