The Little Stranger Chapter Summaries

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Chapter One
Flashback to Faraday visiting the hall as a child
Faraday visits Betty at the hall
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Chapter Two
Faraday sees Caroline while out driving
Begins treatment on Rod's leg
Faraday is given a tour of Hundreds
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Chapter Three
Party is hosted by Mrs Ayres for new residents of Standish/Lidcote
Gyp attacks Gillian Baker-Hyde
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Chapter Four
Baker-Hydes come to see Ayres
Faraday agrees to put Gyp down on behalf of the family
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Chapter Five
Rod has injuries from 'walking into bedroom door'
Caroline points out scorch marks in Rod's room
Faraday invites Rod to his surgery where he has a panic attack and tells him about how the furniture attacks him
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Chapter Six
Faraday tells Caroline what Rod said
Faraday goes for dinner at the Ayres' and Rod eventually insults him and tells him to leave
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Chapter Seven
Fire at Hundreds Hall
Rod is locked in his old room
Rod is institutionalised
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Chapter Eight
Faraday invites Caroline to the doctor's
dance
Faraday tries to make a move on Caroline
but she refuses his advances
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Chapter Nine
Mrs Ayres realises what has happened between Caroline and Faraday
Caroline, Betty and Mrs Ayres find 's's on the floorboards and assume they were made by Gillian
Continue to find 's's and hear strange noises
Mrs Ayres finds more 's's that spell out Suckey
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Chapter Ten
Faraday and Caroline now secretly engaged
Telephone rings at night
Call bells start ringing (wires then cut)
Issues with disused mouthpiece
Mrs Ayres goes to Susan's nursery and gets trapped in there
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Chapter Eleven
Caroline believes there is something supernatural
Rod doesn't want to go back to Hundreds
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Chapter Twelve
Mrs Ayres starts bleeding from a cut on her collarbone and says Susan is trying to kill her
Faraday wants Mrs Ayres sanctioned but Caroline disagrees
Caroline falls asleep when she's supposed to be watching Mrs Ayres and Mrs Ayres locks the door and hangs
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Chapter Thirteen
Faraday tells people of the engagement
Rod is told of his mothers death and her funeral is held
Caroline cancels the wedding
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Chapter Fourteen
Anne (Graham's wife) goes to see Caroline but she won't change her mind
Faraday is called out to an emergency patient and eventually falls asleep in the car where he tried to kiss Caroline
Graham tells Faraday Caroline has died falling off the landing
He
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Chapter Fifteen
Three years later
Betty is happy and in a relationship
Faraday still tries to maintain the house and keeps thinking he will see the 'little stranger'
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