Beside Cat, Tonino exclaimed. Cat looked up from the floor to find they were in the grand central hall of Chrestomanci Castle, standing in the five pointed star under the chandelier. Millie was rushing down the marble stairs to meet them.

“Oh, you found them!” she called out. “I’ve been so worried. Mordecai telephoned to say he put them in a cab which disappeared at the end of the street. He was terribly upset. And Gabriel de Witt died this evening, did you hear?”

“After a fashion,” Chrestomanci said. “In one way, Gabriel’s still very much with us.” He looked from Millie to Cat and Tonino. “Dear, dear. Everyone looks exhausted. I tell you what. I can borrow a villa in the South of France once the measles have abated – with a swimming pool. Tonino can go on to Italy from there. Would you like that, Tonino?”

“Yes, but I cannot swim,” Tonino said.

“Neither can I,” Cat said. “But we can both learn.”

Tonino beamed at him and Cat was glad to discover he still liked Tonino, rather a lot.

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About the Author

DIANA WYNNE JONES was born in August 1934 in London, where she had a chaotic and unsettled childhood against the background of World War II. The family moved around a lot, finally settling in rural Essex. As children, Diana and her two sisters were deprived of a good, steady supply of books by a father, ‘who could beat Scrooge in a meanness contest’. So, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable quest for good books to read, she decided that she would have to write them herself.

Also by the Author

Chrestomanci Series

Charmed Life*

The Magicians of Caprona*

Witch Week*

The Lives of Christopher Chant*

Mixed Magics

Black Maria*

A Tale of Time City

Howl’s Moving Castle*

Castle in the Air*

The Homeward Bounders

Archer’s Goon*

Dogsbody

Eight Days of Luke

Wilkins’ Tooth

For older readers

Fire and Hemlock

Hexwood

The Time of the Ghost

For younger readers

Wild Robert

Stopping for a Spell

* also available on tape

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