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The bell rang again

They sat in the dark

Six

“Let’s not answer,” they both said Startled again, they looked at each other, gasping

They stared across the room into each other’s eyes

“It can’t be anyone important”

“No one important They’d want to talk And we’re tired, aren’t we?”

“Pretty,” she said

The bell rang

There was a tinkle as Mr Alexander took another spoonful of peppermint syrup His wife drank some water and a white pill

The bell rang a final, hard, time

“I’ll just peek,” he said, “out of the front ”

He left his wife and went to look And there, on the front porch, his back turned, going down the steps was Sa Mr Alexander couldn’t remember his face

Mrs Alexander was in the other front roo out of a , secretly She saw a Thi in at the sidewalk, co down They ht

The two strangers glanced up at the dark house together, discussing it