Chapter Fifteen: Spiral DownwardsDuring the next few weeks they spent with Mr Taylor, a brilliant transformation came over Bert and Annabel. No longer dishevelled, lost and without hope, their new home made them feel wanted, cared for and, for the first time in either of their small lives, there was a reason to go on. A future, a real future, now beckoned them and neither had any intention of letting the opportunity they had been given pass by.
The morning Mr Taylor called them both into what he referred to as 'the drawing room', they stood side by side, wide-eyed and anxious, gazing at the high ceiling from which hung a huge chandelier, noting the sumptuously upholstered furniture, the large paintings of faraway places on the walls. Neither spoke. Bert felt his heart thumping. Something
