After the Baudelaires had gone to their rooms, I went back to Kit.
"Tell me more," I said.
Kit pretended not to hear me, shuffling papers and clipping a few.
"Come on," I said. "If anybody would know about this stuff, it'd be you, Kit. One of your brothers is dead; the other is on the run…"
"If you don't mind, Quigley, I'd rather not speak about my brothers," she said. "If you want to hear more, I can only tell so much at a time."
"Talk to me," I said.
She sighed and said, "Well, these two ladies, their first names were Anastasia and Katherine. Anastasia had three daughters who were identical. They wanted it to be like just all the females in their family wore traditional white powder on their faces."
"Wait, so the daughters are the ones that formerly worked for Olaf, but quit and left him in the Mortmain Mountains?" I questioned.
"Yes," Kit said impatiently. "And don't interrupt, if you want to hear the story. Now, after the schism, Olaf hated their family. He burned down their home. Anastasia and Katherine were sisters, by the way, living in the same home. Anastasia, Katherine, Anastasia's husband Richard was killed, and so was one of the three triplet girls."
"What were the daughters' names?" I asked.
Kit grew impatient. "Quigley, must you interrupt so often?" she said. "The two still alive somewhere are named Luca and Teresa. The one that died was Jacquelyn."
"Oh, go on, sorry," I said.
"So Olaf burned down the homes of the Reed family, the Kornbluth family-"
I raised my eyes, puzzled. Kit groaned. "Surely you are familiar with the henchman who died in a fire at Heimlich Hospital, the obese person of indeterminate gender?"
I nodded. "That was Orlando Kornbluth. And she was female, if you want to know."
"Oh. Okay," I said. "And the bald man with a long nose was Alonzo Obede. The man with hooks for hands was Fernald, if you want to know."
"But his last name," I said. "They never said his last name."
Kit thought a moment. "I can't tell you his last name, but we refer to him as Fernald Widdershins. Is that all you want to know?"
"But the creatures under Hotel Denouement," I started.
Kit said, "I know you want to tell more people, but keep this a secret, okay? Everything I told you. You have no idea how dangerous this could all prove to be. I'm starting to doubt whether I should have told you in the first place. You won't tell anyone, not even the Baudelaires, what I told you. All right?"
I nodded, and made the VFD sign for 'My lips are sealed.'
Kit nodded back. "Because if you told anyone, I would have to hold you under that basement for eternity."