They stand for a while in the flower bed, statue still, listening to the phone ringing. Finally it stops, then a moment later it starts again. A chill runs through Alice and she looks anxiously at Frank. He has clearly understood the significance of the ringing phone in the empty house. Within days of Frank arriving in Ridinghouse Bay and within hours of him remembering having been in this house, a phone is ringing and ringing behind the locked door. It can’t be unrelated.
EH?!?! A PHONE STILL WORKING?!?!
