1. The Reading Stand The book is on the stand in the middle of the library and it was not there in November.
2. The First Page The first page is a drawing of two women kissing in this room and four lines of cramped brown ink underneat...
3. Two Hundred Years Late Malfoid does not ask. She takes Mione by the hair with both hands and kisses her like she is settling an ar...
4. The Second Page Corvina picks the second page herself and reads it without looking up, which is somehow worse.
5. The Third The third page is a drawing of one woman holding both breasts up to the other's mouth, and Malfoid reads it...
6. The Fourth Fourth. One woman on her back on the rug, and the other's mouth.
7. The Fifth Fifth. From behind, one hand, no hurry.
8. The Table The library table is the only thing in the room at the right height and Malfoid gets onto it without being ...
9. The Sofa Seventh. The other way round, and the one on top is the one who decides when it stops.
10. Seventh, Continued The page says the one on top decides and Malfoid has decided not to stop, and the room finds out slowly tha...
11. The Rescue Corvina gets both arms round her waist and hauls her backwards off the sofa, and Malfoid comes up swearing ...
12. The Chair Eighth. No hands, no mouth. A thigh and some patience.
13. The End of the Bed Malfoid bends over the end of the four poster with her cheek flat on the sheet and her legs apart and says ...
14. The Tenth The tenth page is answered against the same bed frame and takes longer, and Mione is careful about it in a ...
15. Eleven They get onto the bed properly for this one and it goes wrong twice before it goes right, and both of them ...
16. Twelve The twelfth page is the one that was drawn most carefully and Corvina says that the woman who drew it was h...
17. The Cabinet Corvina takes something out of the locked cabinet and puts it on the table without comment and turns two pa...
18. Thirteen The thirteenth page is short and badly drawn and Corvina has to explain one of the words in it.
19. Fourteen The fourteenth page is a drawing of two women who are not Mione and Malfoid, and Corvina reads it and then ...
20. Fifteen The fifteenth page is Mione's to answer and she does it on the rug in front of the fire without being asked...
21. Fortnight The book has gone blank all the way through, which Corvina says is either the end of it or the beginning of...
22. Ending — Under Seal Corvina seals the cover with black wax and puts it back on the stand and nobody touches it again that winter.
23. Ending — Torn Malfoid tears the first page out and the book does not stop her, so Mione takes a fistful and the two of th...
24. Ending — Ash It goes in the grate whole and takes an hour to burn and the three of them sit in front of it the entire ti...