Girls Running From Houses

The house symbolises control. It resembles an ancient temple.

She is what the house required; she is a friend to rabbits.

The first mistake the girl made was not to remember her past — but could you, intrepid reader, have played otherwise, with the cards thus dealt?

The house, like the butler, serves the housekeeper.

The house is threatened with redevelopment. The girl will only mourn its razing.

The walls of the house are honeycombed by a shifting coldness.

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The fate of the girl turns on the friendship between the lord of the manor and the heir.

The house lingers.

The mistress of the house. The maid. The heir. They have never been beyond these walls.

Agonies. Effigies. Distress.

The neighbours will be too entrancing, and they should be bloodthirsty.

The house symbolises every house.

She arrives at the house tracing the investigator, who ruined her, but who gives the appearance of being not alone.

A floating light. Desire. A gilt-edged folio.

There is a history of a cavernous bathroom in which is a secret passage containing tree shadows.

She flees, pursued by the bloody hermit.

If the girl and the master of the house can just remain uncowed, then only one of them will be lost.

The house twitches in its sleep. The conservatory hides its occupants from the sun.

The house speaks. The conservatory travels fast. In the scullery, the housekeeper searches frantically.

To solve a murder, the girl must consult a little volume, which is a catalogue for a collection of incunabula.

When the girl outwits the house and leaves, the house will fall.

By design, she is herself a secret. Purposefully, the spy is the girl's blackmailer.

The girl is running from the house, luminous in the dark.

The girl is escaping the house in a snowstorm.

The first mistake the girl made was to comply — but could you, gentle reader, have done otherwise?

She soon learns that the house cares only for ghost hunters.

Those in the house demonise everything. But they refuse to accept that — before she flees —the girl will be found in the upper gallery, where sheweeps.

The house is feral. The doctor is greedy. All the girl wants is steady employment.

The girl cannot leave the house because she is being bricked up in its walls.