But Bridget was planted so squarely in his path that this course did not seem very practicable.
"Will you give me my brother ?" demanded Pietro, forced to use words where he would willingly have used blows.
"I haven't got your brother." "He is in this house." "Thin he may stay here, but you shan't," said Bridget, and she made a sudden demonstration with the broom, of so threatening a character that Pietro hastily backed out of the house, and the door was instantly bolted in his face..