I ran. I jumped over the holes in the floorboards, leaped dowairs three at a time, lost my footing and lu the handrail for support. I grasped at a handful of ivy, stumbled, saved myself and lurched fain. The library? No. The other way. Through an archway. Branches of elder and buddleia caught at my clothes, and I half fell several times as my feet scrabbled through the detritus of the broken house.
At last, iably, I crashed to the ground, and a wild cry escaped my lips.
‘Oh dear, oh dear. Did I startle you? Oh dear.“
I stared back through the archway.
Leaning over the gallery landing was not the skeleton or monster of my imaginings, but a giant. He moved smoothly dowairs, stepped daintily and unedly through the debris on the floor and came to stand over me with an expression of the utmost on his face.
‘Oh my goodness.“
He must have been six-foot-four or -five, and was broad, so broad that the house seemed to shrink around him.
‘I never meant… You……（内容加载失败！）
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