Chapter Twenty-Four
‘Another book,’ said Lady Werth stonily. ‘You cannot mean… another Book?’
‘I’m afraid so, Aunt. Theo would have it so, and to be truthful I could think of few reasons to argue with him over it.’
‘Besides the incidental fact of my excessive dislike to the scheme?’
‘Yes! And yours, too, Uncle,’ Gussie said. ‘But he was unmoved. I could almost believe him to have taken a fancy to the Books.’
Lord Maundevyle had restored Gussie, Great-Aunt Honoria and Lord Bedgberry to the Towers, leaving Mr. Ballantine to oversee the clean-up of Woodburgh, and subsequently to return to London to make his report to Bow Street. The hour being far advanced by the time of the dragon’s descent into the Park, Gussie had been famished, but too weary to think much of her dinner. She had gone
