The London Eye Mystery

Ted walks back inside just as his father gets home. Faith hugs Ben and bursts into tears about her long, trying day. Ted tries to tell them he’s solved the mystery, but Ben says, “Shush, Ted […] Now isn’t the time” (252), so Ted goes upstairs.

Kat is face-down on the lilo, her fists balled up against her face. Ted’s alarm clock lies in pieces on the floor. He tries to tell her about the solution, but she hits him with a pillow and sobs.

He goes to Kat’s room, where Gloria sleeps, and he tries to wake her, but she’s out cold from a sleeping pill. He notices Kat’s copy of The Tempest and tries to read it. It’s in an old style of English, and he struggles with the first page until he realizes the play begins with a storm. Gloria wakes, sees him reading, and says she was reading it to help her sleep. She adds that Salim performed in his school’s production of the play, and Ted says Salim told him about it. She turns over, cries a bit, and falls back to sleep.