When the men went, Mrs Oldknow was very angry. The sky in the west was black with clouds now. They laughed because they were very wet. Ping went up to his bedroom and he watched the storm from there. While Ping and Mrs Oldknow were having supper, they listened to the storm outside. He couldn’t sleep. In his head he had a picture of Hanno in the wood. Because of the storm, Hanno was remembering his African forest. When Ping woke the next morning, the storm was over. From his window he could see a van by the wood and another van on the bridge. There was a tree which was lying across the moat. Hanno was standing by the door with his arm against it. He couldn’t do it. He ran. He was trying to find somewhere to cry.