The skilled scribe whose hands are pure

Out of the blue, Sonia Quinine (née Labrador) appears on the threshold of Yifitsin Print Bookshop. There are serious problems in her fashion business (trendy ‘supportwear’ for the fashion-conscious over eighties is not doing too well). However she merely tells her father-in-law that she has a window in her schedule, and has decided to take her little ‘Wobbly’ (her name for Kolya) out to town for an ice-cream. Unlike most of his generation, the infant genius is not delighted by the prospect and bawls his eyes out for twenty minutes. However Grandpa Samuel calms him down with a beautifully illustrated volume of the Egyptian Book of the Dead (he loves the picture of the ibis headed Thoth in Spell 183).