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By
the
time
Howl
arrived
in
the
shop
,
in
a
black
apron
to
match
his
suit
,
he
usually
found
it
quite
busy
.
He
made
it
busier
still
.
This
was
when
Sophie
began
to
be
sure
that
the
black
suit
was
really
the
charmed
gray
-
and
-
scarlet
one
.
Any
lady
Howl
served
was
sure
to
go
away
with
at
least
twice
the
number
of
flowers
she
asked
for
.
Most
of
the
time
Howl
charmed
them
into
buying
ten
times
as
much
.
Before
long
,
Sophie
noticed
ladies
peering
in
and
deciding
not
to
come
into
the
shop
when
they
saw
Howl
there
.
She
did
not
blame
them
.
If
you
just
want
a
rose
for
a
buttonhole
,
you
do
not
want
to
be
forced
to
buy
three
dozen
orchids
.
She
did
not
discourage
Howl
when
Howl
took
to
spending
long
hours
in
the
workshed
across
the
yard
.
I
m
setting
up
defenses
against
the
Witch
,
before
you
ask
,
he
said
.
By
the
time
I
ve
finished
,
there
will
be
no
way
she
can
get
into
any
part
of
this
place
.
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There
was
sometimes
a
problem
with
leftover
flowers
.
Sophie
could
not
bear
to
see
them
wilting
overnight
.
She
found
she
could
keep
them
fairly
fresh
if
she
talked
to
them
.
After
that
,
she
talked
to
flowers
a
lot
.
She
got
Michael
to
make
her
a
plant
-
nutrition
spell
,
and
she
experimented
in
buckets
in
the
sink
,
and
in
tubs
in
the
alcove
where
she
used
to
trim
hats
.
She
found
she
could
keep
some
plants
fresh
for
days
.
So
of
course
she
experimented
some
more
.
She
got
the
soot
out
of
the
yard
and
planted
things
in
it
,
muttering
busily
.
She
grew
a
navy
-
blue
rose
like
that
,
which
pleased
her
greatly
.
Its
buds
were
coal
black
,
and
its
flowers
opened
bluer
and
bluer
until
they
became
almost
the
same
blue
as
Calcifer
.
Sophie
was
so
delighted
with
it
that
she
took
roots
from
all
the
bags
hanging
on
the
beams
and
experimented
with
those
.
She
told
herself
she
had
never
been
happier
in
her
life
.
This
was
not
true
.
Something
was
wrong
,
and
Sophie
could
not
understand
what
.
Sometimes
she
thought
it
was
the
way
no
one
in
Market
Chipping
recognized
her
.
She
did
not
dare
go
and
see
Martha
,
for
fear
Martha
would
not
know
her
either
.
She
did
not
dare
tip
the
flowers
out
of
the
seven
-
league
boots
and
go
and
see
Lettie
for
the
same
reason
.
She
just
could
not
bear
either
of
her
sisters
to
see
her
as
an
old
woman
.
Michael
went
off
with
bunches
of
spare
flowers
to
see
Martha
all
the
time
.
Sometimes
Sophie
thought
that
was
what
was
the
matter
with
her
.
Michael
was
so
cheerful
,
and
she
was
left
on
her
own
in
the
shop
more
and
more
often
.
But
that
did
not
seem
to
be
quite
it
.
Sophie
enjoyed
selling
flowers
on
her
own
.
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Sometimes
the
trouble
seemed
to
be
Calcifer
.
Calcifer
was
bored
.
He
had
nothing
to
do
except
to
keep
the
castle
gently
drifting
along
the
lanes
of
grass
and
round
the
various
pools
and
lakes
,
and
to
make
sure
that
they
arrived
in
a
new
spot
,
with
new
flowers
,
every
morning
.
His
blue
face
was
always
leaning
eagerly
out
of
the
grate
when
Sophie
and
Michael
came
in
with
their
flowers
.
I
want
to
see
what
it
s
like
out
there
,
he
said
.
Sophie
brought
him
tasty
smelling
leaves
to
burn
,
which
made
the
castle
room
smell
as
strongly
as
the
bathroom
,
but
Calcifer
said
what
he
really
wanted
was
company
.
They
went
in
to
the
shop
all
day
and
left
him
alone
.
So
Sophie
made
Michael
serve
in
the
shop
for
at
least
an
hour
every
morning
while
she
went
and
talked
to
Calcifer
.
She
invented
guessing
games
to
keep
Calcifer
occupied
when
she
was
busy
.
But
Calcifer
was
still
discontented
.
When
are
you
going
to
break
my
contract
with
Howl
?
he
asked
more
and
more
often
.
And
Sophie
put
Calcifer
off
.
I
m
working
on
it
,
she
said
.
It
won
t
be
long
now
.
This
was
not
quite
true
.
Sophie
had
stopped
thinking
of
it
unless
she
had
to
.
When
she
put
together
what
Mrs
.