Chapter 5 Summary

While in the drawing room, Hayley thought back to her grandmother's abrupt overreaction, Without an explanation, her grandmother packed her suitcase, called her cousin to come and get her and locked her in her room until he arrived. As she was thinking about this, she noticed that the ceiling was leaking water. When she went to tell someone, she saw the water cascading down the staircase. There was a lot of commotion upstairs as people ran back and forth with buckets.

When Hayley goes upstairs, she is ushered into the bathroom and asked to lean out through the window and attempt to unclog the drain in one of the gutters. Hayley reluctantly agrees and is handed a flashlight (torch) and pushed through the small window, The storm is intense and the wind and rain pelts Hayley mercilessly, but she manages to crawl farther...