Section 9: Pages 197 Through 222 Summary

Sabine cannot help spending the day playing detective in Parsifal's room. She checks out just about everything under the bed, in the books, and in the closet. She is mildly surprised to see the magic kit and tries to read the instructions that would not make anyone that good at the tricks that were in the box. She is still playing when Dot comes home from work with Kitty's sons, Howard and Guy. The boys seem to be more interested in the fact that she has a big home in Los Angeles than the fact that she is a relative now or that she is the best connection to the lost uncle they never knew.

That night, the family holds a viewing of the tape of the Tonight Show that they had watched every night. Sabine remembers back to...