boy; he did not understand words like bestial, sadistic, diabolic, or the meaning of phrases like ‘the Powers of Darkness’, or the Acts by which such Powers are invoked. To him there was fear in a creaking tread on a dark landing; there was terror in the tapping of a twig on his bedroom window, when all the house was asleep; there was horror in the sudden squirm or hop of a toad, or the startled freezing of a cockroach when the light is switched on, and especially in its scurrying when it knows it is discovered!
