It smells of brown soap and beer

Maybelle is laughing immoderate. This is usually bad news.

She is reading a set of minutes. Definitely bad news. She folds over the top of the sheet.

"Read these minutes and see if you can guess which meeting it was," she says.

Let's see..

• Action one to be done by the Counter Supervisors (Hettie, Daisy and Maybelle)...
• Action two to be done by Hettie, Daisy and Maybelle...
• Action three to be done by Hettie, Daisy and Maybelle...
• Action four to be done by Milton...
• Action five to be done by Hettie, Daisy and Maybelle...
• Action six to be done by me (nice to know!)...
• Action seven to be done by Hettie, Daisy and Maybelle...
• Action eight to be done by Frog and Bronwyn...
• Action nine to be done by Hettie, Daisy and Maybelle...

It's too easy. The Assistant Librarians are conspicuous by their absence.