1. Page 11. “ The new house, however, stood all on its own in an empty, desolate place and there were no other houses anywhere to be seen, which meant there would be no other families around and no other boys to play with, neither friends nor trouble.”

Page 12. “ However, the new house had only three floors: a top floor where all three bedrooms were and only one bathroom, a ground floor with a kitchen, a dining room and a new office for father (which, he presumed, had the same restrictions as the old one), and a basement where the servants slept.”

2. Page 13.”(Maria wasn’t the only maid at the new house either: there were three others who were quite skinny and only ever spoke to each other in whispering voices. There was an old man too who, he was told, was there to prepare the vegetables everyday and wait on them at the dinner table, and who looked very unhappy but also a little angry.)”