Monday, July 15—Sunday, July 21, 1776
- After the horror of the branding, Isabel wakes up in a comfortable bed in a nice, small room with lace curtains. She's disoriented by her ordeal and unable to piece together what happened. Lady Seymour comes in and gives her water to drink; apparently she is at Lady Seymour's house, where she has spent the last six days unconscious.
- Lady Seymour puts together the jumbled pieces of the last several days. She adds that after her punishment, the authorities left Isabel in the stocks, where she would have died if Curzon hadn't run to Lady Seymour and told her that Isabel was in trouble.
- Worst of all, though, Lady Seymour has been unable to find out where Ruth is. Madam refuses to give out this information and insists that Isabel return to the Lockton home to resume her service once she wakes up. Which pretty much means right now.