In the Never a True Word pub, there is a hastily convened meeting. Zebedee Thurlough, the curmudgeonly landlord, usually refuses to serve food, but on this occasion he sells falafel on sourdough bread. The difficulty is Prigentia who is seen (by most residents) as the cause of all the difficulties in the area. They plan a collection to find a long-term placement or incarceration in a distant boarding school in remote Northumberland, not far from Bamburgh Castle. As the meeting breaks up, Prigentia herself appears on the door of the Snug, and starts an eerie incantation, capturing the following words. 'I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness; Yet herein will I imitate the sun'.
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