Consider me for the future, if you please, as an Obstacle removed.

May you be happy!" Miss Garth's lips closed on that last sentence like a trap, and Miss Garth's eyes looked ominously prophetic into the matrimonial future.
If Magdalen's anxieties had not been far too serious to allow her the customary free use of her tongue, she would have been ready on the instant with an appropriately satirical answer.

As it was, Miss Garth simply irritated her.

"Pooh!" she said--and ran upstairs to her sister's room.
She knocked at the door, and there was no answer.

She tried the door, and it resisted her from the inside.