Emily Howes, stop laughin' and makin' jokes and come into that livin'-room same as I ask you to." But this Emily firmly declined to do.

"He's not my caller, Auntie," she said.

"He didn't even ask if I were in." So Thankful went into the living-room alone to meet the personage.

And she closed all doors behind her.

"If you won't help you shan't listen," she declared.