CORALINE OPDAGEDE DØREN, kort tid efter at de var flyttet ind i huset.
Det var et meget gammelt hus – der var en loftsetage oppe under taget, en kælder under jorden og en tilgroet have med store, gamle træer.
Coralines familie ejede ikke hele huset – det var det for stort til. De ejede kun en del af det.
Der boede andre mennesker i det gamle hus.
Frøken Spink og frøken Forcible boede i lejligheden under Coralines, nede i stueetagen. De var begge to gamle og runde, og de boede i deres lejlighed sammen med en flok aldrende skotske terriere, der hed sådan noget som Hamish, Andrew og Jock. Engang havde frøken Spink og frøken Forcible været skuespillere. Det fortalte frøken Spink Coraline, første gang de mødte hinanden.
»Forstår du, Caroline,« sagde frøken Spink, der havde fået forkert fat i Coralines navn, »frøken Forcible og mig var berømte skuespillerinder engang. Vi
CORALINE DISCOVERED THE DOOR, shortly after they had moved into the house.
It was a very old house - there was an attic under the roof, a basement underground and an overgrown garden with large, old trees.
Coraline's family did not own the whole house - it was too big for that. They owned only part of it.
Other people lived in the old house.
Miss Spink and Miss Forcible lived in the apartment under the Coralines, downstairs. They were both old and round, and they lived in their apartment with a bunch of aging Scottish terriers named such as Hamish, Andrew and Jock. Once upon a time, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible had been actors. That's what Miss Spink Coraline told me the first time they met.
"You see, Caroline," said Miss Spink, who had got Coraline's name wrong, "Miss Forcible and I were famous actresses once. We