Come on.' They heaved up the door till it stood straight up, and, as they bent to look into the hole below, the door fell back with a hollow clang on the leads behind, and with its noise was mingled a blood-curdling scream from underneath.
'Discovered!' hissed Robert.

'Oh, my cats alive!' They were indeed discovered.
They found themselves looking down into an attic, which was also a lumber-room.

It had boxes and broken chairs, old fenders and picture-frames, and rag-bags hanging from nails.
In the middle of the floor was a box, open, half full of clothes.

Other clothes lay on the floor in neat piles.

In the middle of the piles of clothes sat a lady, very fat indeed, with her feet sticking out straight in front of her.