“We had a plan to engineer your escape. Alex was going to synchronize our timepieces, and I’d bake a cake with a sleeping powder and give it to the guards.” “I was meant to bring the goat,” Penny said. “As a diversion, you know.” Miss Mountbatten lifted her eyebrows and gave Ash a do-you-see-what-I-suffer look. “And then we decided to pool our money and opt for the sensible solution: bribery.” “Yes, that was probably for the best,” Ash said.
