Clive Staples Lewis

stiff Eton collar

take any notice of her,

Then his face went the wrong sort of shape as it does if you’re trying to keep back your tears.

turn Digory’s mind to cheerful subjects,

the foot of the attic-stairs

That was how Polly and Digory got to know

“Perhaps he keeps a mad wife shut up there.

certain little door

Neither of them said the word “haunted”

Uncle Andrew was tall and very thin. He had a long clean-shaven face with a sharply-pointed nose and extremely bright eyes and a great tousled mop of grey hair