On the ground floor were a living room and dining room, and kitchen, bathroom and servants' rooms at the back. We children had to enter and leave the house by the back door. The first floor of the house was for Father and Niang, Franklin and Susan. We were not allowed to go into any of the rooms on the first floor. We had the second floor. Ye Ye had his own room. Aunt Baba and I shared a room, my three brothers shared another one. In the beginning, Lydia was also on"our floor'. Later, she was given a room on the first floor, their floor and went over partly to their side' My new school, Sacred Heart School, was two and a half kilometres from home. On the first day, Cook took me to school on his bicycle on his way to market. Ye Ye and Aunt Baba had not yet arrived from Tianjin. In their absence, no one remembered to pick me up.