"Someone inside the house was laughing." This is the last line of Chapter 4, after Atticus asks Dill, Scout and Jem what they were playing. It was a midday in the summer and Dill, Scout and Jem were rehearsing a play that they made up about the Radleys. Atticus guesses that the trio are acting out a play about the Radleys and says that they shouldn't act it. Scout was scared when she hears the laughter from inside "the house". The house could be either the Finch house or the Radley house, but to keep the plot moving, I think Harper Lee was talking about the Radley house. This laughter means that the house isn't lifeless like what is said in many of the Maycomb myths. This also means that someone in the house was watching everything that the trio were acting out and probably was amused. Hearing the laughter was probably very scary for Scout because they were already scared of the Radleys but to also hear laughter from a "live" Radley, she probably couldn't have been more scared.
Felix
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