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She looked at him sharply , and then retired without speaking . All the next day Andy listened after Mother Peter , waiting to hear her go out . But she did not leave the house until after he was asleep in the evening . On the next day , after waiting until almost noon , the child 's impatience of confinement grew so strong that he could no longer defer his meditated escape from the window , for ever since he had looked over the sash and discovered how it was fastened down , his mind had been running on this thing . He had noticed that Mother Peter 's visits to his room were made after about equal intervals of time , and that after she gave him his dinner she did not come up stairs again for at least an hour . This had been brought , and he was again alone . For nearly five minutes after the woman went out , he sat by the untasted food , his head bent toward the door , listening .