Hilda's pistol^✦︎

Also gun, pistol, young cannon

Hilda's gun, kept in a drawer, which she trains on Bertie.

Connections

dealings

• Hilda Gudgeon wields 1

Scenes it is in

1. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches, as gun