Summary

Mr. Penderwick sends Skye on a walk with Jeffrey, Jane, and Batty while he and Rosalind tackle the kitchen. Skye apologized to Jeffrey for the things she’d said in the kitchen in anger, but they still can hardly meet each other’s eyes and Skye drags behind them as they walk.

Jeffrey leads them along a high stone wall until they reach a wooden gate and tells Jane to look through the knothole for the bull kept in the enclosure, but he isn’t there. He tells Jane about a man who was gored when he trespassed into the field and they go further down the wall to see if they can get a better look from a ladder there.

Rosalind had instructed Batty to stay with her sisters, but when they stopped at the gate, she hid behind...