Thanks for the help on legal beagle, RIB and Blair's fortune.

A rigid, inflable boat, eh? The villainess (a former real-estate agent now an official in the European Union) was going to put to sea in that and escape her murderous deeds.

The only question is, who was more stupid, the inspector who questioned such a person unarmed and without backup or the villainess who would entrust her life to an RIB on a stormy sea?

Don, I loved your recipe.

Eliza, I sympathize. Chaucer for 12 Y-O's? Absurd!

My husband brought home CD's where the Canterbury Tales were read aloud, and they were very easy to understand.   Trouble is, there was no way to skip ahead, and they insisted on reading every passage, so matter how long-winded. I grasped the advantage of listening rather than reading, but I lost interest.