Outdoors the wind was banging a loose shutter or downspout.
Perhaps she hadn't heard footsteps at all, but merely that loose shutter swinging in the wind.
Chances are you'll do a better job with them and actually start working on those loose shutters a couple of weekends earlier than you would have otherwise.
Somewhere outside, a loose shutter banged against the house.
Lifting the bottom of a loose shutter, Cara stuffed him ahead of her through the opening.
I hear the cops are kind of suspicious about that loose shutter the other night.
Giving the baby's back a final pat, Menley hurried down to try to secure the loose shutter.
Her heart was slamming like a loose, windblown shutter in a storm.
It was a loose shutter in the scullery.
It must be a loose shutter on the second floor in the general direction that Steve wanted to go.