- Now the days really stink—without Bono, both Octavian and Cassiopeia are lonely.
- The College is now settled in Canaan, a place full of Whigs and rebels; at night they can see rebels lugging cannons and hiding gunpowder.
- They also get reports from Boston about how soldiers round up Negroes wandering the city at odd hours and communicate with each other through whistles.
- They can hear the militia practicing their shots.
- It's late March, and while they wait for something bad to happen, Mr. Gitney sends his invitation out for a pox party.