Sunday, June 23—Friday, June 28, 1776
- With her espionage career in full swing, Isabel spends the next two days anxiously waiting to hear from Colonel Regan. She's tormented by Madam's hatred of Ruth and constant threats to sell her, but holds onto the hope that the plot to kill Washington will be uncovered before that happens. Sure enough, one of Lockton's co-conspirators shows up at his house with news that their secret is out.
- Lockton tells Madam that he'll be fleeing New York to avoid arrest. Not surprisingly, this erupts into another fight, during which he shoves his wife into the bookcase and beats her. Shortly after, a carpenter nails Lockton into a crate for hauling cheese and loads it onto a cart.
- At dawn, soldiers arrive to arrest Lockton. Obviously, their search of the house turns up nothing, because Lockton ran away in a cheese crate. When they leave, Becky orders Isabel to clean up the mess they left behind and goes to the market.
- Back at the house, Becky gives a distressed Madam the gossip from the market. The Patriots have basically started arresting conspirators against the cause of independence like cops pulling people over for speeding when they have a monthly quota to meet. Word on the street is that an Irishman named Hickey, one of the conspirators who also served Washington in the military, let the plot against Washington slip, which is kind of a dumb move since he's the one who was supposed to kill him. By all accounts, Lockton was able to escape and is safe.