Coraline put on her blue coat with a hood, her red scarf and her yellow Wellington boots. She went out.
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Miss Spink looked around cautiously, looking first over one shoulder and then over the other, peering into the mist as though someone might be listening.
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"Yes," said Coraline.
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"I played Portia once," said Miss Spink. "Miss Forcible talks about her Ophelia, but it was my Portia they came to see. When we trod the boards."
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"They used to send flowers to my dressing room. They did," she said.
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"I'm going for a walk," said Coraline.
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"Men," she whispered. Then she tugged the dogs to heel and waddled off back towards the house.
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Miss Spink was bundled up in pullovers and cardigans, so she seemed more small and circular than ever. She looked like a large, fluffy egg. She wore thick glasses that made her eyes seem huge.
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Miss Spink was walking her dogs. "Hello, Caroline," said Miss Spink. "Rotten weather."
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"Who did?" asked Coraline.
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The next day it had stopped raining, but a thick white fog had lowered over the house.
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"Don't go too far," said her mother. "And dress up warmly."
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"Oh, hello," said Coraline.
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"Have you seen Miss Spink, Caroline?"
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Coraline continued her walk.
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She could hardly see the old man through the mist.
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After about ten minutes of walking she found herself back where she had started.
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She was three quarters of the way around the house when she saw Miss Forcible, standing at the door to the flat she shared with Miss Spink.
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"I do hope she doesn't get lost; it'll bring on her shingles if she does, you'll see," said Miss Forcible. You'd have to be an explorer to find your way around in this fog."
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Coraline continued walking through the garden in grey mist. She always kept in sight of the house.
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He walked down the steps on the outside of the house that led up past Coraline's front door to the door of his flat. He walked down very slowly. Coraline waited at the bottom of the steps.
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"Of course you are, lovey," said Miss Forcible. "Don't get lost, now."
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"I'm an explorer," said Coraline.
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Coraline told her that she had, and that Miss Spink was out walking the dogs.
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The hair over her eyes was limp and wet, and her face felt damp.
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"Ahoy! Caroline!" called the crazy old man upstairs.
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The old man leaned down, so close that the bottom of his moustache tickled Coraline's ear. "The mice have a message for you," he whispered.
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"I don't like the mist much, either," admitted Coraline.
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"Hmph," said her mother. "I suppose I shall have to get you new school clothes. Remind me, dear, or else I'll forget," and she went back to typing things on the computer screen.
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"When do you go back to school?" asked her mother.
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"Next week," said Coraline.
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He picked up a milk bottle from the bottom step, and started back up to his attic flat.
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"No," said Coraline.
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"The mice do not like the mist," he told her. "It makes their whiskers droop."
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"What shall I do?" asked Coraline.
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Coraline went indoors. Her mother was working in her study. Her mother's study smelt of flowers.
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Coraline didn't know what to say.
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The old man shrugged. "They are funny, the mice. They get things wrong. They got your name wrong, you know. They kept saying Coraline. Not Caroline. Not Caroline at all."
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"The message is this. Don't go through the door." He paused. "Does that mean anything to you?"
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Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "M ST I" written on it in one corner, in slightly wiggly letters. She grunted and passed it to her mother.
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Coraline shook her head. "Why don't you play with me?" she asked.
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Coraline crept into the drawing room and tried to open the old door in the corner. It was locked once more. She supposed her mother must have locked it again. She shrugged.
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"Busy," he said. "Working," he added. He still hadn't turned around to look at her. "Why don't you go and bother Miss Spink and Miss Forcible?"
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Coraline went to see her father.
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"I'm bored," she said.
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He had his back to the door as he typed. "Go away," he said cheerfully as she walked in.
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"What shall I do?" repeated Coraline.
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"Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning round.
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"Mm. Very modern, dear," said Coraline's mother.
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"Draw something." Her mother passed her a sheet of paper and a ballpoint pen.
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Coraline put on her coat and pulled up her hood and went out of the house. She went down the steps. She rang the door of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's flat.
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After a while Miss Spink opened the door.
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Miss Forcible looked at Miss Spink, picked up her knitting, and took a deep breath. "Anyway, April. As I was saying: you still have to admit, there's life in the old dog yet," she said.
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Coraline could hear a frenzied woofing as the Scottie dogs ran out into the hall.
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"Miriam, dear, neither of us is as young as we were."
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"Oh, it's you, Caroline," she said. "Angus, Hamish, Bruce, down now, lovies. It's only Caroline. Come in, dear. Would you like a cup of tea?"
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"Yes, please," said Coraline. Miss Spink led her into a dusty little room, which she called the parlour. On the walls were black and white photographs of pretty women, and theatre programmes in frames.
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Miss Forcible was sitting in one of the armchairs, knitting hard.
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Miss Spink poured Coraline a cup of tea in a little pink bone-china cup with a saucer, and gave her a dry Garibaldi biscuit to go with it.
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The flat smelt of furniture polish and dogs.
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"Madame Arcati," replied Miss Forcible. "The nurse in Romeo. Lady Bracknell. Character parts. They can't retire you from the stage."
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"You know, Caroline," she said after a while, "you are in terrible danger."
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Coraline passed Miss Spink her cup. Miss Spink peered short-sightedly at the black tea leaves in the bottom. She pursed her lips.
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"I'll read the leaves, if you want," said Miss Spink to Coraline.
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"Now, Miriam, we agreed," said Miss Spink.
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Miss Forcible snorted and put down her knitting. "Don't be silly, April. Stop scaring the girl. Your eyes are going. Pass me that cup, child."
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Coraline wondered if they'd forgotten she was there. They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go on for ever, if both parties are willing.
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"Sorry?" said Coraline.
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She sipped her tea.
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Miss Forcible looked into it carefully, and shook her head, and looked into it again.
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"The tea leaves, dear. I'll read your future."
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Coraline carried the cup over to Miss Forcible.
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"Oh dear," she said. "You were right, April. She is in danger."
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"What am I in danger from?" asked Coraline.
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Misses Spink and Forcible stared at her blankly. "It didn't say," said Miss Spink. "Tea leaves aren't reliable for that kind of thing. Not really. They're good for generalities, but not for specifics."
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"Don't wear green in your dressing room," suggested Miss Spink. "Or mention the Scottish play," added Miss Forcible.
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"What should I do then?" asked Coraline, who was slightly alarmed by this.
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"See, Miriam," said Miss Spink triumphantly. "My eyes are as good as they ever were É"
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"And be very, very careful," said Miss Spink. She got up from her armchair and went over to the fireplace. On the mantelpiece was a small jar, and Miss Spink took off the top of the jar and began to pull things out of it. There was a tiny china duck, a thimble, a strange little brass coin, two paperclips, and a stone with a hole in it.
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Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. She sometimes wondered who they thought they were talking to.
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She passed Coraline the stone with a hole in it.
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"It might help," said Miss Spink. "They're good for bad things, sometimes."
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The hole went all the way through the middle of the stone. She held it up to the window and looked through it.
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Coraline put on her coat, said goodbye to Misses Spink and Forcible, and to the dogs, and went outside.
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In the mist, it was a ghost-world. In danger? thought Coraline to herself. It sounded exciting. It didn't sound like a bad thing. Not really.
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The mist hung like blindness around the house. She walked slowly to the steps up to her family's flat, and then stopped and looked around.
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Coraline went back up the steps, her fist closed tightly around her new stone.
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"What's it for?" asked Coraline.
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