Something you might
have missed.
A minute or two in good company.
Little scenes from the stories, waiting to be found.

The clockwork mouse
Jonah pauses outside Bellweather & Sons, and remembers Edward as a boy.
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One more turn
There is still a light in Ambrose’s workshop. Jonah happens to look down from his ladder.
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Miss Wren’s basket
Jonah has relit the lamp outside the bookshop. Miss Wren has asked him to wait.
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A theatre on the table
A rainy evening at the Copper Dormouse. The little wooden theatre is coming out of its box.
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The green in the brown shell
Miss Vokes has a shell she would like Barnaby to see. It is not the big one.
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What the book doesn’t say
The great shell has a number, a date and a donor. Miss Vokes opens the accession book.
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