Mirabella had been sitting beside the fire where the lunch for Ebeneezer and her father in law cooked, a book in hand, reading silently, when she heard a mad pounding at the door, and from the force of it, she knew just who it was even before the man behind it spoke. Enoch yelled angrily at the door, commanding she come out and speak with him. Her eyes grew wide and she quickly placed the book down, fear growing in her as she saw the door and the frame shake, the bolts in the bar vibrating. Surely the door wouldn't hold if the man kept that up. She wasn't sure what she should do. Ebeneezer was gone and she was home alone. If Enoch managed to break the bar, then who knew what he could do to her before anyone showed up. Mira stood against the wall beside the door, speaking loud enough for the man to hear, "There is nothing to speak about! Ebeneezer will be home soon, now get you gone or you will regret coming to this door!"

Yet, that only seemed to make the man madder. The door shook harder and Mira flinched with each beating of the door. Her fears grew more as she saw the wood in the bar begin to split and her frantic eyes began searching for something that would give her an idea of what to do. Maybe if she locked herself in one of the bedrooms? She nodded to herself and moved quickly to Ebeneezer's room, getting the key ring out of her dress. Only there were so many keys, she wasn't sure which went to what door yet. She started trying each one and when she was halfway through with the ring, she heard the nasty cracking of wood and just knew he had finally broken the bar. 

She fearfully moved into the room and shut the door, though she found the right key a moment too late. She slipped it into the hole and was about to turn it when Enoch got to the door and threw it open. A loud yelp come from Mira as he grabbed her arm and jerked her out of the room, the force so strong that it caused her fall to the ground. She tried scrambling to her feet but he just hit her in the back with his foot and rolled her over pinning her down there. With one last chance at getting help, for she wasn't sure what Enoch would do to her at this time, she screamed as loud as she could before the man hit her hard enough to knock her unconscious, laying there motionless under him.