Chapter 3 More noises in the night. At about nine o clock that evening, Emma was sitting in the living room drinking a cup of tea. She was thinking about cleaning the house and what she wanted to do the next day. One thing was to clean the windows in the kitchen and the living room. Emma used an old shirt to clean windows. She remembered that she had left her window-cleaning shirt in the attic. "I'll just go up and get that," she thought. "Then it will be down here ready for tomorrow morning. She started up the stairs quickly and confidently at first, but then, as she got higher, she started to slow down.