How do you think the children feel about the new house? During the war, why did Edmund run back to the house? What was he trying to get?

The house is a fertile place for exploration, and from the beginning the reader gathers that the children, while on holiday, are about to be educated in another way - a way that they would never experience in school. The children enthralled by the many old passageways and rooms linking to other rooms and leading out onto balconies, with walls covered in books and old armor.

a picture of his father