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Mrs Digby gripped the lamp. I’m ready for ya, the Digby’s have never been afraid of anything. (Well, except rats, of course.)

‘Ach!’ came a voice, ‘Ich habe auf meine Brille getreten.’

Mrs Digby was surprised to hear a rat talk, a foreign one at that. ‘What language is that you’re speaking?’ she asked.

‘Oh, so someone is there,’ came the voice again, this time in English. ‘Who are you?’

‘I’m the one holding the heavy lamp, ready to knock you out, is who I am. Who are you?’

‘I’m being held captive. Could you help me?’

‘How do I know you’re not one of them?’

‘Because if I was, I wouldn’t be stuck in here.’

Mrs Digby thought for a moment – he didn’t sound particularly dangerous, and seeing as they were in the same situation she thought she might as well get along with him. She set about pulling all the books off the bookcase until it was light enough to move.

‘OK, you ought to be able to squeeze through the gap, unless you are very fat, which I don’t s’pose you are if they have been feeding you the kind of rations they have been feeding me.’

Gradually, one limb at a time a little old man appeared.

A little old man with a huge moustache.

‘Klaus Gustav,’ he said, offering her his hand.