When they all packed up and fled, as the carriages tore like demons from hell along the coach way, did Edward glance behind him and glimpse in the dusk-lit window a sight to replace his nightmare?
-- Narrator (II)

Importance: Birdie describes the highly upset state in which Edward and his friends were in when they left Birchwood Manor. She references the fairy story that indicates sometimes people see a light in the attic window of the house that symbolizes the promise of peace and security. Edward saw this light on the Night of the Following and it indicated to him he was safe. Birdie wonders if Edward got the same sense of peace when he looked at the house when he fled it after the nightmare of Fanny’s murder and the disappearance of Birdie, whom he knew as Lily.

Human beings are curators. Each polishes his or her own favored memories, arranging...
-- Narrator (III)