"But I do!" She was sure now. "Essenden, you'll come down to that cellar — with me!"

A muscle twitched in the shadow of Essenden's drooping moustache; and again the girl spoke.

"You don't want to go down there. Exactly. There's " something down there which might be dangerous… Oh, yes, I saw it in your face! And that's why we're going."

She opened the door.

"March!"

"I don't—"

Jill Trelawney's eyebrows lowered over her frosty stare.

"I said — March!"

Essenden opened his mouth, and closed it again. He went to the door.

"Get a move on."