My apologies to any readers named 'Charlotte' or 'Louise'. In real life, I have nothing against either name, but the story necessitated my choosing those particular names and then saying something bad about each one. I hope that I have not caused any offense thereby.

And to answer some feedback questions from part 3: You were very close, Framework4! And cookiesmom, although Holmes would likely know Dodgson from his mathematical works, it should be obvious now why one of his works he wrote under his pseudonym also needed to have been published by the time of this story. I must admit that I hadn't thought to see whether there were any RL Charlotte Dodgsons alive at the time. I'll therefore add the following disclaimer: Any resemblance of any characters to RL people are purely coincidental. Well, semi-coincidental, I guess, since my Charlotte's names were based on the real Charles. But other than that...

As always, feedback welcome.

cheers,
Lynn