QUOTE : Even houses change, Reynie had thought, and it had caused an odd flutter in his stomach. Weren't houses supposed to represent stability? Sure, the Society had changed a lot of things about Mr. Benedict's house on purpose, but some things, Reynie realized, they had changed simply by being there. A thousand footsteps on that particular board, and now it creaked. <br />Every member of the Society, too, bore a thousand hidden footsteps: effects of a different kind, many impossible to have predicted.