Eliph' walked to the front of the house again, and looked at the front door.
He felt there should be some way to get into the house and have five minutes' conversation with Miss Sally.

If this Colonel and this Skinner had already had months or years of opportunity for pressing their suits, there was not time to be lost, and the sooner he began the sooner he would win.

But none of his ordinary methods of entering unwilling houses would serve his purpose this time.

It would not do to begin by making Miss Sally unfriendly.

So Eliph' tucked his book more snugly under his left arm and looked at the house.