Chapter 11 Summary

The Baudelaires meet with the Quagmires after dinner. Isadora and Duncan are wearing their disguises, but they can't disguise the fact that they look differently than Violet and Klaus. They don't have much time and the children hope that the darkness will conceal their true identities.

Violet manages to sneak a potato, a dab of creamed spinach and a fork from the cafeteria to aid her in her latest invention, but before the Quagmires leave to head for the lawn, the Baudelaires try to convince them not to go through with their plan. Violet thinks they could run away, Klaus thinks they could make it to a payphone to call Mr. Poe and Sunny throws out the idea that they could change schools. None of these plans will work however and the children know it.

The only choice is to proceed with switching...