No answer was vouchsafed.
'Mother, you must either open the door or come downstairs,' he cried with decision.

'This has gone on long enough.

Which will you do ?' 'I'll do neither,' was the angry reply.

'What right have you to order me about, I'd like to know?
You mind your business, and I'll mind mine.' 'All right.

Then I shall send for a man at once, and have the door forced.' Mrs.Mutimer knew well the tone in which these words were spoken; more than once ere now it had been the preliminary of decided action.