![]() ![]() ![]() Something is inside Mabel, something ghastly, and yet there is almost nothing Bell can do about it. Now, though, it seems as though they were warnings, statements of simple fact. ![]() Aaaah! Oh, it's horrible, this teeming visage, believe me (though I'd better not give too much away here), and suddenly Bell has every reason to remember her mother's stories. ![]() Interrupted, her future sister-in-law turns around to reveal a face that is…. Say, I've got a few dresses that might fit you… want to try them on?"), but she also has a dark secret, one that Bell discovers after wandering into a cave in the forest. It's a remote place, surrounded by thick woods, into which she is warned not to wander, and when her only ally – Madame Beauchamp, the housekeeper – disappears, she is more lonely than ever, her dreams populated by dozens of sets of teeth that bite into her and seem to cling on even when she wakes. H aving spent her early childhood listening to her mother's scary stories – the worst kind of monsters, she was told, are those that burrow inside a person and eat them alive from the inside out – Bell is now an orphan who must spend her school holidays with her brother, Clarence, and his fiancee, Rebecca, at their house in the country. ![]()
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