He did the bathroom.

He did the closet.

He went down the landing and did Toby’s room and the back bedroom and the airing cupboard, and every single one of those doors he opened slowly, with his hand flat on the wood, so it would not knock.

Then he came back down the landing and stopped in front of the armoire.

And he turned the flashlight on.

I had my eye at a slot nine inches off the ground and a beam of white light came through it and I could feel it on my face.