Not Lloyd wrote:

Why didn't you answer your door, Curtains Boy??????

why should someone answer a door after determining that the caller is
someone they find unpleasent?

Wiseman is described in term that make him seem to pretty dumb (and if
he is in fact Mr Slit as allleged he is pretty dumb) but it is a sisn
of decent snese not to answer the door when someone unpleasent comes
calling

I do likewise or if they are presistant enough I greet with the busness
end of a shotgun, being a country boy these days the is more accepted
than in most towns