Summary

In the eighth chapter, Eleanor narrates in the first-person-present. Standish tells her to tell her husband not to come to dinner. Eleanor makes it clear that he cannot tell them what to do.

In the ninth chapter, Alice narrates in the first-person past. She saw Standish arrive at Eleanor’s house and felt bad for him because he was known as a man who not even maidservants would want to marry.

In the tenth chapter, Eleanor Billington narrates in the first-person present. She looks outside and sees her son in the field. Her other son, Francis, had died. Francis had seen a lake with his excellent eyes and had ran to tell Standish about it, but Standish had called him a liar. Francis had come home in tears and Eleanor had yelled at Standish for calling her boy a liar. She had gone...