Chapter 3 Summary

The Baudelaire children convince their Aunt Josephine that Hurricane Herman is looming and they should go to town for groceries. Violet and Klaus do their best to convince their aunt that they would be happy to cook for her, but she refuses. Instead, she sends Violet to look for cucumbers for another round of chilled cucumber soup.

As Violet heads out in search of the cucumbers, she bumps into a man. He has an eye-patch covering his left eye, but Violet sees right through his disguise. Count Olaf has found them again.

Aunt Josephine comes looking for Violet and meets Count Olaf, who is now using the alias of Captain Sham. He flatters Aunt Josephine and although the children do their best to tell her that it is indeed Count Olaf standing in front of her, she will not believe them. Klaus remembers...