The Witches Page #4

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If you're not careful...

...the health people

will order the whole hotel closed...

...before everyone gets typhoid fever.

You can't be serious, madam.

I've never been more serious

in my life.

Now, will you or will you not

let my grandchild...

...keep his hygienic

and perfectly harmless pet mice?

If they are kept in the cage,

and only in this room.

Nowhere else in the hotel!

Agreed.

Very well.

Grandma...

...I can't train my mice

if they're in a cage.

Nibbled cakes, indeed.

There were,

only it was a boy called Bruno Jenkins.

I'm teaching William and Mary

how to be tightrope walkers.

I brought the circus

I'm building with me.

Good. Show me.

Let's see.

Look. I'm planning them a major house.

Ramp ways here, a bathtub.

This elevator's pretty neat.

You really did this yourself?

It's good. I'm impressed.

You must train your mice...

...but you mustn't get caught

or do it in here...

...because if that hysterical maid

comes back...

Now it's teatime.

I just love English hotel teas.

Cream cakes and shortbread and...

No, Grandma.

No cream cakes.

And no shortbread, either.

It's full of sugar.

I shall end up eating the same diet

as your mice.

That's the trouble with this country:

A queue for everything.

They wouldn't think to have

two tea trolleys.

No, that'd be too convenient

for the paying guests.

They'll want two lumps of ice

in their whiskey next.

They'd queue for their own funerals

if they could.

I know that woman

from somewhere...

...but I can't for the life of me

remember where.

Her face is so familiar.

Which one?

My memory's going.

But it's as if I met her before.

She's probably on TV

or something.

Cucumber sandwiches.

Fish paste.

You got the wrong one.

Oh, no. Sugar.

Sugar can kill you.

I know, but it was very little.

Something very odd is going on.

Are you listening to me?

You'll have some fresh air

if I have to take you out by your ear.

We didn't come here for you to sit eating

and watch telly all day.

All the other boys are out there

playing in the water.

Pick up your knife.

You're just like your father.

Good afternoon, madam.

Go on.

Are you sure you're all right?

Fine, fine.

What are you going to do now?

I'm gonna take William and Mary

and explore this place.

Just don't get into trouble,

will you?

I won't.

Come on.

Excuse me, please.

That's fine.

Carry on with the rest of them.

No. In the kitchen.

Wait there.

Great. Now do it again.

Come on.

I'm sure your delegates

will be comfortable in here.

If there's anything we can do...

Come on, Nicola,

down the front!

Drinks will be served

on the terrace after...

...you've concluded your meeting.

Skies are clearing,

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