"From the top of the [double-decker] bus you could look down on people in the street, and they never knew, and also, which was more fun, you could see into people's gardens all along the way, and sometimes into their rooms." (p.79)
"No one ever seemed to talk to [Mr Janes] really. But, sometimes, when we were in bed, we could hear Mrs Jane's voice telling him what we all had been doing during the day. We never heard him, only her, because she had to talk very loudly. Their room was next to ours so we were able to hear everything pretty clearly. I felt rather uncomfortable and tried to make coughing noises so that they would perhaps hear that we were awake. But she never did, and after a while I didn't bother any longer." (pp. 80-81)
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