1. The Property The sentence was thirty days of community service, which in practice means thirty days in a house on Fetter...
2. Linen The linen room is stacked to the ceiling and Mione has already started, sleeves tied at her waist, boots off.
3. The Cellars Malfoid takes the lantern and goes down first because she does not trust anyone else to.
4. The House Hears Every lamp in the hall lights as you walk in, one after another, a few feet ahead of you like something eager.
5. The Table The room turns the lamps up. Not slowly — all at once, like applause.
6. The Wall You get her against the stone wall and she does not resist and does not help, and the lantern light goes ve...
7. The Ledger The ledger is not an inventory. It is a guest book, in eleven hands, spanning a hundred and twenty years.
8. The First Night Three bedrooms on the second floor and only one of them has a bed in it. The other two have been made up as...
9. The Bath The copper tub fills itself while she is still arguing about the plumbing.
10. The Parlour The parlour is all velvet and no furniture except a chaise long that has been used a great deal by people w...
11. Day Nine By the ninth day the house has stopped asking. It opens whichever door you were thinking about.
12. The Mirror Room The room is mirrors on all four walls and a velvet ottoman and nothing else, and it has been waiting a hund...
13. The Ordinary Week Then a quiet week, which is worse. The house stops performing and just lets you be three people in a bed.
14. Every Wall It starts with Mione and ends up with all three of you and the mirrors never once stop showing it back.
15. Day Twenty-Nine On the last night the house locks every door at once, including the front one, and puts all the lights out ...
16. The Last Night The room upstairs has a bed the size of a boat and the house has been making it for a hundred and twenty ye...
17. The Report The Ministry clerk is waiting on the step at nine with a clipboard and a very practised expression.
18. Ending — Signed Off He signs it off at nine-fifteen and the house is boarded by nine-thirty, and by ten it is just a building a...
19. Ending — Another Month You tell the clerk the house is still active and the three of you require an extension.
20. Ending — Freehold You recommend sale with enchantments intact and the Ministry does what it always does, which is the cheapes...