Muddled Uncle
Uncle Julian mistook Constance for this person.
Who is his late wife, Dorothy?
Constance considers wearing these while neatening the house.
What are her mother's pearls?
Merricat thought that Cousin Charles was actually this.
What is a ghost?
Merricat tries to ward off change by avoiding these three words.
What are pegasus, gloucester, and melody?
These people always knew Constance and Uncle Julian by name, but not Merricat.
Who are the unwanted visitors, nosey villagers and reporters?
Uncle Julian thinks Charles looks like this dead family member.
Who is his brother John (also Constance & Merricat's father)?
Constance forgot and added this to Merricat's dinner.
What is dressing on her salad?
Charles sits in this position at the dinner table.
What is John's chair (Merricat's father/Julian's brother)?
This protection had failed when it mysteriously fell.
What is Merricat's father's book that was nailed to a tree?
Stubborn visitors always tried the front door and then went here.
Where is the side door?
Merricat thinks Charles is doing this to Uncle Julian.
What is making him sicker?
Constance and Charles are doing this together.
What is making plans for their future?
Charles gets angry when he discovers this buried in the yard.
What are silver coins?
Merricat tries to scare off Cousin Charles by reciting this at dinner.
What are the poisonous mushrooms and their symptoms?
This was kept alive in the Blackwood home, causing Charles to become frustrated with Uncle Julian.
What is the memory of the night their family died?
Uncle Julian thinks poorly of Charles's father, saying this about his character.
What is that he's dishonest?
The more upset Charles gets, the more Constance feels this.
What is guilty (at fault) for letting them all hide away?
Charles tells Merricat that he wonders this about the future of the Blackwood home.
What is whether he or Merricat will still be there?
Merricat tries to rebuild her protections by hanging this object in the tree.
What is her father's gold watch chain?
The Blackwood family kept their money here.
What is the safe in their father's study?
Uncle Julian believes this about his niece Mary Katherine.
What is that she died of neglect in the orphanage 6 years ago.
Constance tells Merricat that this will have to change.
What is to forbid her wandering and quiet her down?
Merricat does this to eliminate Charles from her father's room.
What is to break things and soil the bed with dirt, broken glass, etc.?
Merricat remembers her parents feeling this way towards her.
What is that she was perfect and should never ever be punished?