He also added that he had some information I would be interested in that he did not feel comfortable imparting in the mail, but that he would tell me when we next saw each other in person. Intrigued, I decided to take the train into the city the first weekend of December. I had to approve the costumes for the dance at Miss Janeway’s anyway, and since my schoolwork was finally back on track (Dame Beckwith had been right—having more to do had only made me more efficient) and preparations for the dance were shaping up nicely, I thought a weekend in the city seemed like a perfect reward. I asked Helen and Daisy if they wanted to go with me, but they both declined, Daisy because she was supervising a nestling tracking hike and Helen because she’d volunteered to go along—which seemed suspicious to me, considering they were still hardly speaking to each other. As I rode out in Gillie’s trap I saw the troop of nestlings entering the Blythe Wood under the watchful supervision of Professor Malmsbury and two armed Dianas.
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