Chapters 7-9 Summary

As Ella approaches the ogre, Prince Char orders her to stop. Afterward, he asks her why she obeyed the ogre, and Ella lies and says that there was something irresistible in the ogre's eyes. Char is worried, thinking that this means that the ogres now have a new way to bend people to their will. Ella and Char take the baby gnome to his family, who are overjoyed that their child is all right. The child's grandmother thanks them, and then expresses surprise that Ella could convince the child to go with her, since she is human. Ella explains that she simply repeated the parrot's greeting in Gnomic. The old gnome woman says that Ella will one day save many people. She foresees that Ella will be closely associated with three others, who are not to be trusted.

Dame Olga's carriage...