Never a neighbor saw her face at door or window, although all the women who lived near did their housework with eyes that way.

She would not go to the door if anybody knocked.

The caller would hear her scurrying away.

Nobody could gain admittance if William were not at home.
Barney went to the door once, and her voice sounded unexpectedly loud and piteously shrill in response to his knock.
"You can't come in! go away!" cried Rebecca.
"I don't want to say anything hard to you," said Barney.
"Go away, go away!" repeated Rebecca, and then he heard her sob.
"Don't cry," pleaded Barney, futilely, through the door.

But he heard his sister's retreating steps and her sobs dying away in the distance.
He went away, and did not try to see her again.
Rose went to see Rebecca, stealing out of a back door and scudding across snowy fields lest her mother should espy her and stop her.