Chapter FifteenMum was out so it was Nan who gave him a hard time about being out so late. Ben waited until the fusillade of screaming and shouting subsided before he explained, as briefly as he could, what had happened. He stuck to the agreed lie, but at the mention of the green door in Darley Dene, Nan's expression changed, anger replaced by a wide- eyed look, which, if pressed, Ben would probably describe as 'terror'. But terror of what? Nan slumped in her chair at the kitchen table and stared into space for a moment.
“Oh Ben,” she said at last, her voice sounding tired. “When are you ever going to start doing as you're told?”
“Nan, there's nothing there except—”
“No, Ben there is something there. Something you can't understand.”
“Well why don't you explain it to me then?”
She shoo
