One of life's small and simple pleasures is reading a good book in a cozy room by a roaring fire on a stormy day. 

It's not a pleasure that Lord Toff Ornelos gets to indulge very often - and he doesn't expect to get to indulge it much today; if this storm gets much worse, the city's archbanker will magically quell the weather - to protect the shipping.

Toff is resolved to get as much reading in as he can before they do that.