Chapter Fifty
It started raining while they were at Gunter’s. It rained all that night and the next day. And the next. And the next, until Violet was ready to burst with frustration. She wanted to see Wintersmith, wanted to run along the roofs with him, wanted to talk with him and laugh with him and make love with him. But she couldn’t, not while the rain beat down so heavily.
She would have gone mad if not for the children.
On the first rainy day, she helped them build a fortress out of furniture, with tunnels and hidey-holes and a roof made of blankets. They all picnicked inside, even Rhodes and Aster, and it was capital fun.
On the second rainy day, they played hide-and-seek throughout the house, adults and children alike. Violet found Jessamy in her window seat, and later that afte
