There will be four of them. Daniel decides this immediately;two girls, two men. Last year there men. They were very quiet and worked hard at their books. He didn't see them very often because of the high wall between the gardens behind the houses.
Daniel's garden is very small but it's full of full of flowers. The garden of the next house isn'n like that and the first words that Daniel hears this September afternoon are, 'What a terrible place!' It's a girl's voice, high and sweet