"What?" yelled Bruno over the newborn's wailing.
"I said," Augustus bellowed back, "this house is too quiet!"
At first Bruno thought that lack of sleep had driven the baron mad. When the baby finally took her nap, his logic was easier to grasp.
"What Flora needs is voices—faces—family. She should be surrounded by love."
Bruno grinned. "How about some aunts and uncles?"
"No aunts," decreed Lady Violet, and her word was law.
Making up two brothers was a labor of love. He made them different and extreme and amusing.
Above all, he made them part of the family.