To describe the image in five words: fatalities,uknown,darkness

why was the knife polished?what might it suggest this ?I think that the knife is polished because the killer(the man jack) wants to make a clean and sharp cut ,this may possibly suggest that the man jack is a stealthy and a well known assassin .

why do readers expect bad events to happen at night?

“his hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin.”

Copy out all sentences that describes the setting:”the toddlers room was at the very top off the house “,”silent on the carpeting “,”the real moon shone through the casement window”,”light was not bright,it was diffused by the mist “,”the cot”.