But to her dismay she found the door already fast, and concluded the hour had arrived when the house was shut up for the night.

She rang the bell, but there was no answer--for there was Mewks himself standing close behind the door, grinning like his master an evil grin.

As she knocked and rang in vain, the fact flashed upon her that she was intentionally excluded.

She turned away, overwhelmed with a momentary despair.

What was she to do?
There stood Joseph! She ran back to him, and told him they had shut her out.
"It makes me miserable," she went on, "to think of the poor man calling me, and me nowhere to answer.