“It was just when I thought I was all alone,” Eleanor said. “You’re frightened,” Theodora said, watching Eleanor. Particularly if my thoughts happen to be about murder or suicide or-” “A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. “It’s the home I’ve always dreamed of,” Theodora said. “Mine used to be the embalming room, I think.” “Wait till you see the bedrooms,” Eleanor said. Journeys end in lovers meeting, she thought it was my own choice to come. “No,” she said aloud, and the one word echoed. I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
“In the dark,” she said, and closed the door behind her. No one else will come any nearer than that.” “We couldn’t even hear you, in the night.” “We live over in the town, six miles away.” “I don’t stay after I set out dinner,” Mrs. No one, she thought, can catch me now they don’t even know which way I’m going.īecause this was a time and a land where enchantments were swiftly made and broken she wanted to linger over her lunch, knowing that Hill House always waited for her at the end of her day.Įxorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed. The light changed she turned onto the highway and was free of the city. Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.
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