AS UNPLEASANT AS IT was, Frankie had no choice but to stay close to Mr. Stannum for the rest of the day. It wasn’t easy, either, because he spent a good deal of time in his office with the door closed. But that didn’t deter Frankie. You see, at the moment when she told Daddy that she wasn’t going to go with him to the meeting, when she made the decision instead to stay at the restaurant, she decided that she would learn exactly what Mr. Stannum had found. She would find out, no matter what. And when she did, she would . . . well, to be honest, she didn’t know what she would do.
But she would do something, because Number Threes, in absence of Number Twos, had no choice.