OK, never managed to find the book, and unless it is online in e-form, probably wont for quite a while…but is it ever explained what the nasty thing in the woodshed was?
I just re-read this recently. No, it’s never explained, except that the old lady has used the supposedly traumatic experience (the details of which she’s long ago forgotten) to get sympathy and rule her family throughout her life.
It drove me crazy for years too. We’ll never know. [cheesy science fiction voice] Maybe there are some things we were not meant to know, too horrible to imagine [/cheesy science fiction voice]
Wilbur Whateley’s twin brother?