The Secret of Platform 13

The gump leads to the Island, a wonderful mythical paradise filled with both normal and magical creatures such as giants, mermaids, water nymphs, wizards, witches, hags and merrows, people who married mermaids/mermen.

The three nurses for the baby Prince are overcome with their homesickness for the land where they grew up and wish to visit London when the gump reopens.

She is a preposterously rich woman who does not work; she claims her husband's income is five hundred thousand pounds a year.

To rescue the prince, the king and queen organise a group who will venture into London the next time the gump opens.

The group consists of a giant, Hans (who was made invisible so he wouldn't stand out), a "slightly batty" fey, Gurkintrude, a wizard, Cornelius, better known as Cor, and a young hag named Odge, who joined because she was the same age as the prince would be and felt a sense of kinship to him as a result, and also brought a present.

Her sisters are all impressive hags who have stripy feet, fingernails so long they can dig the garden with them, black hairs like piano wires coming out of their ears, and blue teeth.

Odge does have one blue tooth, but it is a molar and right at the back of her mouth, and she has a very, very small bump on one foot which she thought was an extra toe for a while, but wasn't.

Meanwhile, Nanny Brown has died and left behind a letter, in which she reveals Ben's true identity as the stolen baby, with Raymond actually having been born to Mrs. Trottle in Switzerland.

Raymond is hastily sent back through the gump and returned home, and Odge later accepts Ben’s invitation to live in the castle with him.