Chapter Six
Marista walked across the hall and as she did so she heard voices in the sitting room.
She realised that Anthony was downstairs talking to Mr. Tolmarsh and, as she paused for a moment, she heard her brother say,
“When I was a boy, I used to find it great fun to slip out at night after I had been put to bed and, of course, there were dozens of ways of getting out of The Castle.”
“What were they?” Mr. Tolmarsh asked.
Anthony paused. Marista knew that he was thinking about the secret passages and, as he obviously could not mention them to a stranger, he replied,
“I think the easiest way was by one of the lower windows in the Norman Tower, which is almost on the edge of the cliff. Nobody worried if the shutters fitted there, which they did not, or noticed that the catch on th
