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The evil uncle also dies. He is chased across the countryside by a bulldozer and is then drowned, as is heavily foreshadowed, in an underground parking lot when the waters rise over the World's Most Depressing Seaside Town.

Is he one of the Twites? This is exactly the twentieth-century version of the demise of one of Dido's and Is' horrible relatives.

The old lady is fine and neither she nor the book ever confirm or deny which old lady she actually is.

GOOD FOR HER MAY SHE MANAGE SOME HAPPINESS UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS BOOK EXCEPT THE DOCTOR I GUESS.