The Tale of Despereaux Chapter 20 Summary

A View from a Chandelier

  • Roscuro spots a dazzling chandelier in the banquet hall and decides that this is the best place to watch all the action.
  • So he scurries past all the people and makes it up to the chandelier unseen. But as he's hanging there, Princess Pea looks up and shouts that there's a rat.
  • Roscuro is so startled and shocked by how ugly the word "rat" sounds that he lets go of the chandelier…and falls directly into the queen's bowl of soup. Uh-oh.