Summary

After his mother passes away, Ned feels incredibly angry, as the religious quarrel had led her to die thinking she was a failure. On Easter in 1570, Ned catches Barney at home between voyages where the two celebrated God in the morning, and visited the grave of their parents of night. Ned tells Barney the house is his, but Barney gives it to Ned as Barney was profitable on the sea as captain of another vessel. Ned says the elderly Fifes and their daughter Eileen, the latter who is in love with Barney, will take care of the house. Barney says he will never settle down, as a sailor rarely sees his wife. However, he wonders why Ned has never found anyone else besides Margery. Ned inwardly knows that her dedication to Catholicism should have bothered him. Instead, he found himself still...