Chapter Nine Summary

At Parliament Square, Dodger tells the guards that he is the man who helped arrest Todd and that he is there to see Dickens. A man named Disraeli gets them set up in a meeting with Dickens. As Dodger sums up Disraeli, he decides the man is a dodger as well, a geezer of the mind. Dickens and Disraeli disclose what they know of Simplicity's background. Simplicity fills them in on the details that she is willing to give. Dodger is surprised to learn that Simplicity is a princess. She informs the men that she left her husband because he turned into a mean person as soon as they were married. Dickens tells her that the priest who performed the marriage as well as the two witnesses have died. She explains her father-in-law was angry that his son had married for...