Arthur Huntingdon discovers that his wife is planning to leave him, and take their little boy with her.

Mrs Squeers has lost the school spoon, and is uncomfortably frank about its importance.

Richard Hannay was finding life in London a little slow until a self-confessed dead man walked into his rooms.

Kim O’Hara starts his apprenticeship as a British spy with a little competition.

Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.

Wilkins Micawber had little to give David Copperfield at their parting, save two words of advice.