1. Nine O'Clock The estate is impounded, the school is shut, and the solicitor opens at nine in the morning.
2. Forfeits The rules are Malfoid's and take four minutes: winner names a forfeit, loser pays it, nobody is allowed to ...
3. Hand One Mione loses the first hand by two points and Malfoid takes about nine seconds to name her forfeit.
4. Hand Two You win the second hand and Malfoid pays it before you have finished naming it, which is somehow worse than...
5. Hand Three Mione wins the third hand and takes a very long time over her forfeit, which everybody allows her because i...
6. Hand Four Malfoid loses and pays her forfeit standing up in the middle of the room without waiting to be told what it...
7. Hand Five Mione loses the fifth hand and does not wait for the forfeit, which is the first genuinely surprising thing...
8. Hand Six The bottle is half gone and the forfeits have stopped being things anybody could call a forfeit.
9. Hand Seven Mione loses the seventh hand and has taken her own dress off before the cards are face up.
10. What She Wants To Be Told Malfoid tells her to get on her knees on the hotel carpet and not to speak, and Mione does it before the se...
11. Malfoid's Turn Malfoid pays for the seventh hand on her knees with her nose against your hip and does not come up until sh...
12. Hand Ten Hand ten goes to nobody, because the cards have stopped being dealt, and they work out the order by argumen...
13. Hand Eleven Mione's forfeit for losing the argument is to sit on Malfoid's face, which she cannot do without being told...
14. Hand Twelve By hand twelve they are both too far gone to cheat competently and the cards have been pushed off the end o...
15. The Last Hand The last hand is announced as the last hand and both of them lose it, because you win, and you have been co...
16. Mione's Terms Mione asks for hers on all fours, and she asks for it the way she asks for everything, by explaining why sh...
17. All In The all-in is at four in the morning and the stake is that the winner chooses and the two of them do not ge...
18. The Third Hand At five the three of them discover there is no arrangement that fits three people on a hotel bed and stop t...
19. The Third Hand, Paid What Malfoid has been saving since hand two is that she wants to watch, and she wants to be in the room, an...
20. The Deal The cards are on the floor and the bottle is finished and nobody can find a shirt and the solicitor opens i...
21. Seven At eleven she comes back from the solicitor's with a stamped copy of something and a face nobody in the roo...
22. The New Rules New rules. Winner names a forfeit. Loser pays it. If I lose I get told what to do and nobody asks me afterw...
23. Four Hours Later By four in the afternoon the cards are on the floor again and nobody has been to work and nobody has any in...
24. The Table The deck is squared on the table and there is one banknote underneath it and none of the three of them can ...
25. The Last Round On the last morning of the week the money is gone and the bottle is gone and the cards are the only thing l...
26. Ending — Same Rules They keep playing all summer. The hotel gets used to them and stops replacing the glasses.
27. Ending — She Folds She folds on the last morning and takes her coat and goes, and neither of them stops her because neither of...
28. Ending — Bottom Of The Deck You tell her about hand four: she stacked the deck, she has stacked it every night since, and the cards fan...