07 - Oh ye venerable and decrepit of Taos, beware!

It is the unfortunate Leporello who breaks the news to Dido Doolittle. They meet on the riverside walk below the Warren at Hay. She recognises the young man who she has seen wandering around the neighbourhood, and he tells her that Samuel and Malvolio are turning the taxidermist’s emporium it into a book shop. She is not pleased. Meanwhile all is going well with the new house. The infant genius, Kolya, has named the building Shambhala, and before his mother disappears to New Mexico for a Third Age Trade Exhibition, she plans the décor of the ground floor. When she finally departs however Samuel gives the decorator his own plans.