"That's down in the well too," Coraline explained. "I used it as bait." She put the cup down to gesture, describing the shape of the well with her hands. "I put a tablecloth over the top of the well and put the key in the middle. And then I pretended I was just having a picnic, with my dolls, and we'd brought the key along for good luck, so when the hand came and saw it it jumped into the middle of the tablecloth and fell down the well. And then I put the planks back over the top, that were supposed to stop people falling in. They're extremely heavy. I almost couldn't lift them."