but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted.
Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it.
Occasionally she made Bovril or Ovaltine. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her
as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad.
She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling.
She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
Mr Wormwood, the Great Car Dealer
Matilda's parents owned quite a nice house with three bedrooms upstairs,
while on the ground floor there was a dining-room and a living-room and a kitchen.
Her father was a dealer in second-hand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it.
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