away to Switzerland for a year and pretends she has had the baby there. She is a preposterously rich woman who does not work; she claims her husband's income is five hundred thousand pounds a year. Back in the tunnel, the three nurses only discover that the prince is gone when it is too late and the gump has closed again. The King and Queen are heartbroken and for the next nine years the Island is in deepest mourning. To rescue the prince, the king and queen organise a group who will venture into London the next time the gump opens. The group consists of a giant, Hans (who was made invisible so he wouldn't stand out), a "slightly batty" fey, Gurkintrude, a wizard, Cornelius, better known as Cor, and a young hag named Odge, who joined because she was the same age as the prince would be and felt a sense of kinship to him as a result. She also brought a present. Odge is a young hag who feels she is a disappointment to her parents and therefore wants to do something big in life to make up for it. Her sisters are all impressive have who have stripy feet, fingernails so long they can dig the garden with them, black hairs like piano wires coming out of their ears, and blue teeth. Odge is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, which is supposed to be special, but when Odge was born she is almost a perfectly ordinary person. Disappointed, Odge's mother did not name her any fearsome name, but Odge, because it rhymes with Splodge, (after Odge's aunt said she looked like "a small pink splodge") and hoped that Odge would improve as she got older. Odge does have a one blue tooth, but it is a molar and right at the back of her mouth, and she has a very, very small bump on one foot which she thought was an extra toe for a while, but wasn't. Odge feels that her parents, especially her mother, can never get over just how different Odge is from all her sisters, especially her oldest sister, Fredegonda, who is the fiercest and hairiest of all her sisters. When the gump opens, the rescuers are directed to the Trottle house by the ghosts that live in Platform 13. There they see Raymond Trottle, who has grown up to be