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Aunt Schadenfreude’s funeral is nothing like the rehearsals she supervised because relatives whom Shenanigan barely knows take it upon themselves to organize the ceremony. Shenanigan is furious at how her great-aunt’s wishes are disregarded, and she watches the funeral from a tree rather than taking her place among the mourners. The handwriting on the place cards looks familiar to Shenanigan, so she takes it and stalks out of the graveyard. Schadenfreude’s death transforms her from Shenanigan’s “scowling nemesis into scowling-but-sympathetic hero” (244), and the girl renews her vow to avenge her. Flora storms into the house around the time that Shenanigan leaves the funeral, and a lost-looking Daisy watches the ceremony from a distance.

Shenanigan shows the place card to Candour, who tells her that Daisy wrote it. Shenanigan tries to convince him that Daisy is the killer. Although the doctor thinks that the girl is merely distracted by grief, he agrees to talk to Daisy. Shenanigan hides in the conservatory, and John, Felicity, and Erf comfort her. Phenomena tries to persuade them to resume the investigation immediately, but Shenanigan sees that Felicity needs time to grieve. She tells herself that saying she’s sorry means that she’s “brave rather than weak” (249), and then she apologizes to her sisters.