McGregor placed two large cardboard boxes on the breakfast table beside Fraser’s coffee and scrambled eggs. ‘Your homework arrived this morning, sir,’ he said with a wry smile. ‘Courtesy of Miss Penelope.’ He handed Fraser an envelope. The note inside said, Read everything. Watch everything. Love, Penny xx.
Fraser opened the first box and took out a stack of books, journals and David Attenborough DVDs. Yesterday he’d agreed to do whatever she asked of him. Was this what she meant? Fraser opened a little book that had slipped from the pile, an ancient children’s reader titled Legends of Greece and Rome. He recognised it as one of his old schoolbooks, with his name written on the first page in a childish scrawl. How curious. He turned to the page she’d bookmarked for him. The Punishment of
