Then she realized the sound was coming from the stairs.
A man was just coming up to it from the lower stairs.
He watched the two, a man and the woman from the stairs, approach the screen.
It was the boy who had watched us from the stairs.
"Do you remember walking from the stairs to the kitchen door?"
She turned from the stairs and approached the old woman's room.
"The second door on the right from the stairs," he said.
"When I tried to open the door, the fire came from the stairs," he said later yesterday.
He looked at the ground that separated him from the stairs.
You heard the whole thing from the stairs, I know.