The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Sometimes when I want to be on my own I get into the airing cupboard outside the bathroom and slide in beside the boiler and pull the door closed behind me and sit there and think for hours and it makes me feel very calm.

Then I said, “Father said I was never to mention Mr. Shear’s name in our house again and that he was an evil man and maybe that meant he was the person who killed Wellington.

I said, “I can’t do chatting.”