Contents

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1. What Our Furniture Says About Us

2. Chinese Submarines

3. A Middle-Class Woman Comes to the Door

4. The Dangers of Boeuf Stroganoff

6. All Those Germs

7. Tic-tac and Other Matters

8. Tibetan Hats

9. The Use of the Subjunctive

10. How Dim Can You Get?

11. Caroline Meets Berthea

12. The Wound in the Psyche

13. I Do Not Want to Be My Mother

14. Basil Wickramsinghe Throws a Little Party

15. The Sudoku Remedy

16. England Expects William to Do His Duty

17. An Icelandic Poet

18. Freddie de la Hay Goes to the Park

19. Pericolo di Morte

20. The Open Society and Its Enemies

21. Recycled Sandwiches

22. Codes and Things

23. Dee Lies to Caroline

24. Berthea Reflects on Oedipus

25. Cars and Auras

27. Dee Is Exposed as a Liar

28. Barbara Regrets Giving Her Key to Rupert

29. Rupert Scorns the Yeti Project

30. The Sleeper Train

31. The Cool Kindliness of Sheets

32. A Homeopathic Joke

33. Further Examination

34. Among the Rosbifs

35. Don’t Go There

36. Our Obligations to Animals

37. Philosophy for Dogs

38. Sebastian Duck Collars Freddie de la Hay

39. James Offers Risotto

40. Morphic Resonance

41. May Contain Nuts

42. Behind the Arras

43. Terence Moongrove Entertains

44. The Green Man

45. A Question of Karma

47. Freddie de la Hay Meets Mr. Podgornin

48. A Breakfast Exchange

49. In the Waiting Room

50. The Yeti Goes Shopping

51. A Painful Memory

52. Dinner at Racine

53. Meeting Sorley

54. Words of Welcome

55. Martin Makes a Proposition

56. Freddie de la Hay Goes Off Air

57. Freddie de la Hay’s Fate Is Determined

58. Caroline Turns to Jo for Advice

59. The Reassurances of Home

60. Outside Fortnum & Mason

61. In Fortnum & Mason

62. À la recherche d’un yeti perdu

63. Meeting Stephanie

64. Inconclusive Conversation

65. Under the Waterfall

66. Eddie Upbraids William over Freddie

67. In Farmer Brown’s

69. Preparing Canapés with Frances

70. A Developing Crisis

71. The Green Man Cometh

72. A Meeting with MI6

73. Chipping Campden

74. What Did the Green Man Say?

75. Dee and Martin Do the Business

76. With One Leap …

77. A Kind and Generous Soul

78. No Man Is So Lonely

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