She looked up at the sound of footsteps outside the door.

He looked up from the fire at the sound of footsteps.

Then she heard the sound of footsteps just outside the door.

I heard the door open, and then the sound of footsteps.

As from far away, he heard the sound of footsteps.

The sound of footsteps brought him back to the present.

Where was the person who had made the sound of footsteps?

Now the sound of footsteps just without her own door.

No sound of footsteps came up or down the road.

He looked up at I the sound of her footsteps.