" This set off a series of additional questions from Batty, which Iantha gracefully took on, giving Rosalind the chance to slip away unnoticed. She crossed the street to the Geigers’ house, headed round to the back, and knocked on the kitchen door, just as she’d done a thousand times before. "

― Jeanne Birdsall , The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)