Chapter 10 Summary

Mrs. Frankweiler has the children stay overnight so they could each relate his or her version of their adventure into a tape recorder. While Claudia dictates her version, Mrs. Frankweiler and Jamie play a game of war— Jamie beats her and wins thirty-four cents. When it came time for Jamie to talk into the tape recorder, Mrs. Frankweiler leads Claudia on a top-to-bottom tour of her house, even letting her pick out in which bedroom she would sleep.

At some point in the evening, Jamie and Claudia's parents call and Mrs. Frankweiler assures them that the children are all right. Early the next morning, Mrs. Frankweiler had her chauffeur, Sheldon, drive the children home to Greenwich in her Rolls-Royce, and upon return submits a written report to Mrs. Frankweiler recounting the events of the trip (Jamie couldn't stop playing with all of the...