She then put the tenpenny nail sometimes used to fasten the window down, in its place, as if to say, "Come in, if you can." Then she pulled out the folds of the chintz curtain, hanging on its draw-string half-way up the window.

If there had been any other precaution possible, she would have taken it.

But there was not.
She took up the note, and read it.

Julia was not a girl of keen penetration.

Her training was that of a country life.