(It seems more understandable with them, because they're dolls who live in an attic. The dolls also talk in an 'Alice' type way, like Uncle Morris. They tell Maggie she's 'the right one', and that 'it's time' for her to join them. The dolls are named Timothy John and Miss Christabel. But when Maggie enters the attic, there's no one there, just a couple of old china dolls and a broken china dog. Maggie tries to find the source of the voices, and she eventually does. The voices are faint, and seem to come from another part of the house. They're not even real and she treats them badly.), starts hearing voices. Maggie, who has already been creeping me out by having conversations with imaginary girls she calls 'The Backwoods girls", (They're her imaginary.not friends, really.
Leaves don't grow on trees you know." At one point he cryptically says that Maggie is 'the one'. At one point one of the aunts, tiring of his 'jokes', tells Uncle Morris, It's time for you to take your leave." Uncle Morris responds with, "Take my leave? Where is my leave? Maggie, have you seen my leave? It's a shame to lose one's leave. If you've read the 'Alice' books you might know what I'm talking about: the strange, over literal answers to everything, that don't really tell you anything. Everything he says sounds like it's being said by a character in "Alice in Wonderland". When Uncle Morris shows up at the house Maggie feels a little better. Maggie pokes the doll in the face with her thumb and tells the aunts she doesn't play with dolls. Her aunts give her a closet full of used, drab clothes and outdated cotton stockings that are worn with a garter belt,as well as a brand new rubber baby doll, for which one aunt has handmade pretty clothes and lace trimmed underwear. She's been kicked out of foster homes and boarding schools for stealing and generally being a mean, disagreeable character. Of course, Maggie is pretty unlikable herself. Maggie doesn't like it in the big house where she feels unwanted. They, and Maggie's Uncle Morris, who lives elsewhere, are Maggie's only living relatives, so they don't have much choice. Her aunts don't make her feel welcome, and in fact are pretty open with the fact that they don't want her there. In fact, the classroom is still there, unchanged. The aunts' house she's sent to was once a school too. It seems Maggie has been something of a problem at all the boarding schools she's been in. As the book opens she has been sent to live with her aunts, after being thrown out of yet another boarding school. After her parents were killed in a car accident Maggie bounced from one foster home and boarding school to another. Some kids may get bored before the really interesting stuff comes up, but hang in there.
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