In a panic after hearing footsteps coming from behind her, one of them must have circled around and entered the kitchen from the dining room, she frantically clawed at the love seat, trying to move it in order to create an opening she could squeeze through.
She just managed to get the damn thing moved and was squeezing between the arm rest and the door frame when the attack came. Out of the dark, they hit her from both directions, one coming from deeper in the hallway, and the other one from the kitchen.
In a wild flurry of disjointed action she found herself being pushed onto the love seat...