"Wait a minute, Eleazer. Just hold on a second. Let's take 'count of stock an' decide how we're goin' to proceed. We've got to make a plan," pleaded Elisha.
"But we've made a plan a'ready."
"No, we ain't—not a real plan. We've got to decide 'xactly how we'll go 'bout the affair," contradicted his companion. "After you've knocked at the door an' gone in—"
"I knocked an' gone in?"
"Yes, yes," Elisha repeated. "After that, you'll sorter state the case to Marcia, 'xplainin' why we've come an' everythin'—"
"An' what'll you be doin' meantime?" Eleazer inquired, wheeling sharply.
"Me? Why, I'll be waitin' outside, kinder loiterin' 'til it's time for me to go in—don't you see?"
"I don't. The time for you to go in is straight after the door is opened. It's you that'll enter first an' you who'll do the explainin'."
"But—but—s'pose Heath was to put up a fight an' rush past me?"
"Then I'll be outside to stop him," Eleazer cut in. "That's where I'm goin' to be—outside."