The second part of this original story by Culver. Last week we read of Alice Redway’s suffering at the hands of Reverend Crowley and Mr Sedgewick. Now her friend Pippa East is in the firing line… During his telling of the torrid tale of the tutoring of Alice, Sedgewick grew as animated as it’s possible for a chap to get over a quiet drink in the village pub. His fellow chorister and drinking partner, Thorndyke, listened intently to every detail, imagining events vividly. Yes, he reflected, it was good to know that Alice Redway, that sullen little vixen, had at last been getting what had been coming to her. Much as he was enthralled by Sedgewick’s narrative, Thorndyke was bursting with impatience to recount a recent experience of his own, the story of how he’d got his hands on ‘Miss Goody Two Shoes’ Pippa East. He gestured towards Sedgewick’s nearly empty glass. ‘It’s my round,’ he said, and headed to the bar. The choirmaster at St Mark’s, Edwin Phipps, likes to treat himself to numero...