And then she watched him go slowly up.
Suddenly he turned and came down again.

"Ellen," he said, in an urgent whisper, "if I was you I'd take the chain off the door, and I'd lock myself in--that's what I'm going to do.

Then he can sneak in and take his dirty money away." Mrs.Bunting neither nodded nor shook her head.

Slowly she went downstairs, and there she carried out half of Bunting's advice.
She took, that is, the chain off the front door.

But she did not go to bed, neither did she lock herself in.