The Diary Of A Young Girl (안네의 일기) - Anne Frank

I go up to the attic, where Peter is busy picking fleas from the cat. He looks up, the cat notices it, and whoosh... he's gone.

Out the window and into the rain gutter. Peter swears; I laugh and slip out of the room.

Freedom in the Annex

Five-thirty. Bep's arrival signals the beginning of our nightly freedom.

Things get going right away. I go upstairs with Bep, who usually has her dessert before the rest of us.

The moment she sits down, Mrs. van D. begins stating her wishes. Her list usually starts with “Oh, by the way, Bep, something else I'd like...”

Bep winks at me. Mrs. van D. doesn't miss a chance to make her wishes known to whoever comes upstairs.

It must be one of the reasons none of them like to go up there. Five forty-five. Bep leaves.

I go down two floors to have a look around: first to the kitchen,

then to the private office and then to the coal bin to open the cat door for Mouschi.

After a long tour of inspection, I wind up in Mr. Kugler's office. Mr. van Daan is combing all the drawers and files for today's mail.

Peter picks up Boche and the warehouse key; Pim lugs the typewriters upstairs;