![]() ![]() On the walls, repeated in various colours, hung several portraits of Queen Victoria as a girl these were postage stamps, borrowed by Pod some years ago from the stamp-box on the desk in the morning-room. ![]() ![]() You should see where they live: Homily was proud of her sitting-room - the walls had been papered with scraps of old letters out of waste-paper baskets, and Homily had arranged the handwriting sideways in vertical stripes which ran from floor to ceiling. Have you ever wondered where all those little lost things go to in a house? All the bottle tops and pins and needles and string and matchboxes and reels of cotton and a hundred and one other things? Well, someone like Pod has probably been round collecting them. Her father, Pod, regularly goes off borrowing, for the things that the family needs. She lives with her father and mother under the floorboards in the kitchen of a rather large, old house. Arrietty Clock is a Borrower, although actually, when this story starts, she's never been borrowing in her life. ![]()
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