"Humph! I must be gettin' nerves, I guess." She began folding the old quilt in order to make it easier to carry downstairs.

And then she heard another groan, or sigh, or combination of both.

It sounded, not outside the window or outside the house, but in that very room.
Again Mrs.Barnes dropped the comforter.

Also she went out of the room.
But she did not go far.

Halfway across the floor of the adjoining room she stopped and put her foot down, physically and mentally.
"Fool!" she said, disgustedly.