Résumé :
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The story begins with young Kate sewing a quilt with her aunt Mrs May. As they knit the quilt, Mrs May tells Kate about her brother who told her about the Borrowers. She begins by telling her the story of fourteen-year-old Arrietty Clock who lived under the floorboards of a house with her father Pod and mother Homily. As Borrowers, they survive through Pod's "borrowing" of items from the "human beans" who live in the home above the floor. But one day Pod came home shaken after borrowing a toy tea cup. After sending Arrietty to bed, Homily finds out that he has been "seen" by a human bean: a boy who had been sent from India to live with his great-aunt while recovering from an illness. Remembering the fate of their niece Eggletina, who wandered away and never returned after her father had been seen and the big people had brought in a cat, Pod and Homily decide to tell Arrietty. In the course of the ensuing conversation, Homily realizes that Arrietty ought to be allowed to go borrowing with Pod.
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