The Recognition Procession
- The next morning is an important day: it's the day Tom Canty will be crowned.
- First, though, there is the recognition procession through London.
- There are no bulls, but there are nobles, and knights, and shiny weapons—everything you can imagine. People are just crazy excited to celebrate their new, magnanimous, king. Tom is having a great time being adored by everyone, and is making it rain with shiny English coins.
- All is going well until Tom's mom recognizes him. She rushes out of the crowd and puts her arm around him, but he denies ever knowing her.
- As soon as he says those words, all of the fun that he was having disappears. He has to pretend not to be depressed just in order to make it through the procession. By the end of it, his protector is convinced that he's gone crazy again. Or maybe he's just returned to sanity.