- Miss Farnaby returns from the library and tells Mulberry she met a charming man,Mr Smith,whom she has invited to dinner but Mulberry is shocked when this turns out to be his father. When they are alone Death tells Mulberry that Miss Farnaby is safe from him for the time being as the three months are not yet up but since he has entered the house there must be another death. Fortunately the chosen victim is a mouse that has been running loose in the house for some time.—don @ minifie-1
- After a mishap with a mouse loose in the house, Miss Farnaby decides to take a drive down to the library. Mulberry is surprised, however, when Miss Farnaby desires to drive herself. She returns with news that she has met a gentleman whom she has invited for dinner. When Mulberry, Bert, and Alice are determined to find out who this man is, Miss Farnaby proclaims that the gentleman in question is unknown to them. She even tells them that she herself had never met him before, but that when she dropped a book in the library, he picked it up for her and they started a conversation. She only describes him as a Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith arrives and turns out to be none other than Mulberry's father, Death himself. Mulberry, in turn, does his best to not let him and Miss Farnaby spend any time alone, fearing Death will take her. After dinner, Mulberry has a conversation with his father and discovers that Death has only come to dinner because he was invited by Miss Farnaby. But before he leaves, Death tells Mulberry that since he has been in the house, there must be a death in the house. Mulberry is relieved and then shaken when Death tells him it won't be Miss Farnaby, since he promised Mulberry that she would not be taken till the spring and by Mulberry. Mulberry then panics and thinks Death was referring to Bert or Alice, and then attempts to get them to make sure they proclaim their love for one another. Miss Farnaby is upset with Mulberry for being "impertinent and obtrusive" during the dinner and demands an explanation. He covers up his true feelings when he claims that he feels like a mix of servant and guardian for her and was upset that she didn't inform him of her dinner guest. Mulberry then discovers that neither Bert nor Alice end up dead, but however, the mouse they were trying to capture, has.
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