'Making a good character for my Raskolnik friend – though he truly has a heart of gold – will be impossible when, tidy and stylish girl that you are, you are gaping at his rude exterior form. So let us move on,' Jack said. 'Next thing Mr. Foot knows, I show up, all decorated with baubles from France, nearly as spent as Yevgeny. So he took me in, in the same way. And finally, a French gentleman approached him and let it be known that he'd like to purchase the Bomb & Grapnel – proving the rule that things tend to happen in threes.'