The Dreams Of Cardinal Vittorini And Other Strange Stories - Plot & Excerpts
Though not exactly shy, I was a timid, cautious boy at school, with no great ambitions other than to get by and not be punished. My memory of events leading up to the incident is hazy, but I am sure it had a lot to do with what is now called ‘peer pressure’. I was twelve years old and in my last year at Stone Court preparatory school in Thanet.Just outside the school premises, and strictly out of bounds, was a large, derelict, red brick building standing in a wilderness, surrounded by a high wall. This was in the early 1960s, before the age of the developer, when such ruins were not so unusual. The building, called Grove House, exerted a powerful influence on our young imaginations. Of course, it was said to be haunted, but how and by what was never specified. Masters when interrogated on the subject of Grove House were invariably vague, but whether through ignorance or a reluctance to impart information I could never tell.The whole school used to take a walk every Sunday afternoon and frequently passed its rusty, padlocked front gates.
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