In any case, he managed to slip out once the children had shuffled into the main room. Carefully, oh so very carefully, he watched them from the crack in the door. Taking the risk, he waited until no one was directly looking back at the front door in order to close the foyer door. He locked it and, because he was feeling especially dickish, he had placed a rather large plank he had found in the attic and hidden away in his crawlspace on the floor between the foyer door and the front door. It took a bit of doing in order to shift it into place and do so quietly so that it was placed up tight against both doors. Even if the children managed to break the lock and force the door, they weren’t getting out that way. That job done, he made his way to the crawlspace.