As Margaret and her father went slowly up the street, she paused at Higgins's closed door.
"Shall we go in?" asked her father. "I was thinking of him too."
They knocked. There was no answer, so they tried the door. It was bolted, but they thought they heard him moving within.
"Nicholas!" said Margaret. There was no answer, and they might have gone away, believing the house to be empty, if there had not been some accidental fall, as of a book, within.

As Margaret and her father went slowly up the street, she paused at Higgins's closed door.
'Shall we go in?' asked her father.
They knocked. There was no answer, so they tried the door. It was bolted, but they thought they heard him moving within.
'Nicholas!' said Margaret. 