He says he sat on the cellar steps most of the time and thought of the happy past.

At last the cook came home and when he heard her walking around upstairs he pounded and shouted again.

She thought he was a burglar, just as though a burglar would make all that noise, and wasn't going to let him out.

He insists that he ruined his voice forever in trying to convince her that he was himself.

He says his frenzied pleadings finally touched her adamant heart, and she opened the cellar door very cautiously at the rate of about a sixteenth of an inch per minute." Grace laughed with the others, as Nora finished.