After lunch, both boys were in the kitchen starting the dishes when there came a knock at the front door and a woman’s voice calling,
“Ruthie … Ruthie … are you home? It’s Janet and Belinda”.
“Come in, come in. I was hoping you might stop by.” Mrs. Wilkins rose and went to greet her old friend, Janet Thompkins, and her seventeen-year old daughter. Billy and Johnny froze in the kitchen and looked at each other with panic-stricken eyes. Since Mrs Thompkins and her attractive daughter had already stepped into the living room and the stairs to their bedroom lay on the far side of that room, they were trapped in the kitchen.