He saw him. Of course, that would make sense. Why shouldn't the Raven King come when called by his own spell? But if he was back in England, then where did he go? Where? He knows Strange can't answer that, with how he and Norrell and all of Hurtfew Abbey vanished, but he can ask, suddenly very serious-sounding (or at least more than usual), "What did he look like?"

A man in black robes, he's already filling in the description for himself, but that's disconcerting. Maybe he'd seen a painting before. Or a sculpture. There's enough around, scattered throughout England.

On the counter nearby, Pythia looks up from prodding the bags of tea about and, rather than telling him to get the cups out already, she looks up makes an uncertain, questioning noise at Childermass.