"Hm." "Silas!" "Silas!" "I must go find him, Alice." "I must be the brother to him now that I failed to be." "You'll see that I'm right." "I love you." "I'll be back." "The boy's dead, Verity." "Huh, the cause of it is, the cause of all our ills here, i-i-i-is them in charge." "So just leave it be, eh?" "And I'm..." "I'm ready for me breakfast." "Come on." "Pick it up." "You see it there." "It pleases me that you should pick it up." "Obedience delayed is as insolent as defiance." "I will let it pass." "This time." "Henry was out there, whether I discovered that news or not." "In't it better that you know it?" "In't I done you a service?" "Is that what you tell yourself?" "Is that what helps you to sleep at night?" "Oh, I sleep fine." "It weren't me who left my brother out there for dead." "If you believe that anyone sees you as a man of justice, you are mistaken." "Your jealousy is cut across your face like a scar for all the world to see." "Do you not know true devotion when it's stood looking at you?" "Why can't you see it?" "All I want is for you to admit one time that I stand before you as a respectable man." "Hasn't Silas chosen his brother over you?" "Mistress Rutter." "Lady Yeardley." "I witnessed your encounter with the secretary." "God is close beside us when we act with humility." "That is why it brings us such peace." "I did benefit from my bout with Master Farlow, ma'am." "Verity, this is the most wondrous portion of the year." "In the Christian calendar St John's Eve is a time of celebrations and an opportunity to see that our Holy Father wishes only joy for us." "Do you mean the..." "the summer solstice, ma'am?" "That is a pagan festivity, Verity." "Ours is godly." "Bonfires, feasting and merry-making." "Do you care for country dancing, Verity?" "I do..." "Your Ladyship." "I never danced but I do love it more'n anything." "Anything!" "Well, I surely do appreciate life's unexpected profits." "Perhaps you would care to help me with the preparations." "Thank you." "I would be proud to." "I in't never been so happy." "Never." "Dancing." "Feasting." "In't this world so kind!" "Today is the most heavenly day ever there was." "Bread and beer and cheeses leaping over bonfires." " Mercy, what are you babbling about?" " Boys, ma'am." "I meant to say boys leaping over bonfires." "I'm just so excited." " The cheese is for eating." " Mercy..." "St John's Summer Solstice Eve, ma'am." "Is there anything more humdrum than hedge-born lads leaping over bonfires?" "Well, Lady Yeardley's making such plans." " And she's gathering volunteers." " Oh." "I shall dance a country dance until my legs fall off." " I have a gift for you." " Hm?" "A ruff and a ruff iron?" "Where did you find such as them?" "Do you like 'em?" "They're gentleman's things." "There in't too many gentlemen here." "Where'd you get 'em from?" "Did you thieve 'em?" "In't you a rare cheese dressed up all fine, Meredith Rutter?" "Why should only the precious born beautify themselves?" "If I show my face outside this door wearing a stolen ruff," "I will be hanged that same day!" "Huh..." "They're Secretary Farlow's." "Come here." "Listen to me, woman." "Listen to me." "No more thieving." "Do you hear me?" "No." "More." "Thieving." "I hear you." "Verity, what if it's Henry comes down that river, not Silas?" "Now there's a thought to rob you of sleep." "It's on me the whole day." "I might lift my head and he's there." "You need a weapon." "What do you mean?" "I mean, if he ever comes close to you, you kill him." "Dear Lady Yeardley, would you permit me to be of assistance?" "I do so relish the gaiety of St John's Eve." "Boys leaping over bonfires." "Heavenly." "Here." "Let me put my newly acquired stitching skills to good use." "What a delight!" "I feel such a tender spirit about me today." "I have been so lonely here." "I believe it's affected my nature." "My husband is so very fond of Samuel." "Yes." "It does please me so." "Our greatest hope was that you would bring a man of such endearing merit the contentment that he deserves." "It is my wish too." "Being such a young wife, Mistress Castell, perhaps you might allow me to offer you some guidance on these matters." "Hmm." "I'd be most grateful." "Dutifulness and amenability are the greatest gifts that God affords a woman." "Yes." "If we are agreed, then we might begin with a morning Bible reading?" "I'd like that." "I start at five o'clock." "I know no better gratification than to witness God's dawn." "Yes." " Silver!" " Whoo!" "Whoo!" "I knew it!" "By God, I always knew it!" "We must dig up what we can take back with us." "We are rich men!" "There's work to do yet, Davie." "You know what will become of me when Henry Sharrow returns." "You did that to me." "Well, I in't afraid of Henry Sharrow." "And what about when I'm alone at night?" "You owe me a debt, James Read." "Make me a dagger." "I can't do that." "If I make you a weapon, you might slay Henry Sharrow as soon as he walks back through those gates." "They'll hang you and I'll be the cause of it." "Then not another word will pass from my mouth towards you until you forge for me the sharpest blade ever came from your hands." "Thems the marshal's." "Why would you risk your life for thieving?" "Why?" "Ma'am..." "Hm..." "It's so early." "No woman should ever witness any hour that comes before dawn." "Such times are fit only for flea-bitten shepherds and damned hooting owls." ""In like manner, also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly array but which becometh women professing godliness with good works."" ""Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection."" ""Silence and subjection."" "Mistress Castell, let me ask you." "How will you conduct this God-given day?" "How will I...?" "You will seek every opportunity to serve and obey your dear husband." "You will meet his every wish." "Submit to his every word." "Is that not so?" "It is so." "I feel God has brought you to me at this time, so that you might find the light by which to live your life." "To steal once is madness." "To steal more than once is more than madness." "A man can't lose a ruff." "Yes." "I lashed my servant but he promised he'd not mislaid it." "Yeah, I have a brooch and a sash, both missing." "No one here would dare to steal." "When you first came here I warned you if you take what is not yours..." "I would report you to the marshal." "I'm sorry, lover." "To steal the likes of things that we don't want, that we can't sell, that in't no use to us, what is that, huh?" "When my father would come home... with that terrible cruelty on him..." "I used to sneak out of the house as quick as my feet could carry me." "And if I could just pick someone's pocket or rob an ha'penny, a farthing or two from an ale house... then the world didn't seem so fearsome." "Come with me." "Mistress Sharrow, it..." "It's true what you said." "It was me who brought this burden on you." "But even if they don't hang you, to kill a man, to plunge a blade into him, that is a horror that will haunt your mind." "Sp-Speak to the marshal about Henry." "Speak to the governor." "Tell him what happened." "Please." "I am doing this for you." "I will face Henry Sharrow and I will tell him." "Please." "You are the most pure-hearted woman that I have ever known." "Do not let this place do to you what it has done to us men." "Please." "Chacrow." "What do they say?" "They want to know if you are a man or a fish." "Chacrow, I have to go." "I have to find my brother." "Ah... ah." "Eat." " Do you not like our food?" "On a day such as today, I feel a sense of our community, of what is possible here." "Good folk living together." "Such a blessing." " Don't you think so, my sweet?" " Yes." "It's at moments like this that..." "I wish we could bring our own child into the world." "Hmm." "Yes." "She's different, that's what." "If I am to prescribe for your wife, Rutter, then I need to know what it is that is altered about her." "Her thinking." "Er..." "I still cannot grasp what her condition is." "Look, she smiles when she should not." "She's silent." "I don't like it when she's silent." "In't there a potion that'll restore her?" "Make her shout at me, kick me, anything but this." "I fear there's something you've failed to tell me, Rutter." "Perhaps explain, Verity." "Well, in't this place just shining with treasures!" "Glass bottles and the like." "Silver measures and the like." "We'll have to go now, sir." "Hey!" "James Read." "Governor." "Why did you go searching for Henry Sharrow when his brother had reported him dead?" " I wanted to find out how he died." " Did he ever speak of gold?" " He did." " What did he say?" "Well, it won't me he spoke to." "Meredith Rutter has a-a-a rock." "Sometimes the two of 'em would sit and... just look at it." "Meredith Rutter." "How is that possible?" "We were in the same room as you!" "Don't you like them?" "Oh, Lordy." "You've had your jollity." "Now you must stop!" "Do you hear me?" "That is an end of it." "In't this a good life we have?" "In't I given you a chance to put all them trouble behind you, huh?" "Go on then." "Go on then." "Promise your husband." "I can't do that." "Then you shall not step outside until your senses are your own again!" "You won't want a life in an Indian village now that you have such a plenty." "I have a wife." "You'll be returning to Jamestown?" "He was sleeping in the boat." "There was a fire." "I watched him die but now I'm told he did not leave this world." "What were you doing on the river, Silas?" "My brother wanted to search for shiny mineral..." "Wasawahs." "...in the far-off mountains." " Your tavern's closed up, Rutter." " Yes, sir." "No." "No, sir." "You know Henry Sharrow well?" "I-I-I knew him before he were Henry Sharrow." "I knew him when he were a man like other men." "Used to trade with the Indians." "Gold I'm told." "Yeah." "Well, no more than trinkets, sir." "Henry never asked what the Indians might have told you?" "When the gold is concerned, they'd bite their own tongues off, rather than give precious information to the likes of us." "So Sharrow got nothing from you?" "Only ale, sir." "And fine talk." "This will be our marker." "We must make a pact, Henry." "We'll tell no one where the silver is to be found." "Who am I gonna tell?" "So they might rob me of the riches I waited all these years for?" "Neither of us returns here without the other." "In't the joy of such a discovery the sharing of it?" "Pepper?" "Hornworms." "A plague of them will destroy a crop in a week." "What are we gonna do?" "There are so many." "Pepper, go into town and get help." "Verity?" "Verity!" "Sorry." "Verity!" " Samuel." " Lady Yeardley." "I can't help but feel a sense of wonder when I see wives on the street here in Jamestown." " Wouldn't you agree, dear Samuel?" " It is as I had hoped, Lady Yeardley." " The true beginnings of the colony." " My belief exactly." "And yet I feel God's purpose is not yet fulfilled." "Not until we hear the gift of children's voices in our settlement." "Do you not agree?" "Yes." "Of course." "Yes." "That is why wives have been given to the men, is it not?" "Mistress Castell, I'm sure you long to see the gratitude in your dear husband's eyes when you tell him that you are to observe your duty to him and bear him his firstborn." "Hmm." "It so happens we were discussing this very topic just yesterday." "My wife is as enthused as I am by the prospect of children." "Then I feel certain you will have news for us soon." "Is that so, Jocelyn?" "I'm sure we will discover what the true riches of Virginia prove to be." "Not gold, not tobacco, but the next generation." "The Indians call it bloodlines." " They know why it matters." " Jocelyn?" "When I write again to my cousin in Oxfordshire" "I will send her news of pregnancies and births." "As she knows you a little, Jocelyn, she would be enchanted to hear that you are so contented in our faraway world that all thoughts of England are forgotten." "Yes." "I believe you're right, Lady Yeardley." "In't it all just so heavenly?" "Excuse me." "Oh, it is here." "And you are here." "The master's house." "Not somewhere else." "Were you wishing to see Mistress Castell?" " No." " Oh, the master then?" "No, and you're not to tell them I was in their house." "Do you understand?" "Then why are you...?" "Because..." "You show me what you have that you didn't have to grab for yourself." "Why, e-everything." "Like..." "Li-Like skipping." " Skipping?" " Skipping." "That's not..." "Skipping in't gold or riches or plenty, is it?" "No." "When I wake I am amazed." "For while I was asleep God made another day." "Verity." "Verity!" "Right, show me." "Show me what it is you took." "Go on." "What is it this time, hm?" "Skipping." "What?" "We must start at the bottom of the field and work our way back." "Do not miss a plant." "Do not miss a single tobacco leaf." "There's to be bonfires." "Boys will jump over them." "Will you jump?" "I will." "I think you'll be the best at jumping." "I thank you, James Read, with all my heart." "It's nice to hear your voice again." "I've decided to make you that dagger." "Thank you." "I see now." "No... woman should ever have to live in fear of any man." "So you will speak to me then?" "Hmm." "I will." " Rutter..." "When was the last time you saw the dawn?" "Marshal, sir." "I-I-Is it the dawn, sir?" "Your Honour, your Honour, sir?" " You spoke with the governor." " Yeah, I-I did, sir." "Yeah." "Did he ask you about a map?" "Do you mean De La Warr's map, sir?" "Let me tell you what I know about that." "There in't no such diagram." "How do I know?" "Because if there was how comes it's remained hid all these years?" "That map's a fable, sir." "There in't nowt men love better than fables." "Did you tell Yeardley this?" " No, sir." " Why not?" "Well, because he never asked about no map, sir." "What is it that I don't like about you, Rutter?" "Erm..." "Perhaps it's my breath, sir?" "My wife says it's like a plague of puss." "I could spend hours just thinking of ways to bring you harm." "Farewell, Marshal." "Ma'am, why did Mistress Rutter come into the master's house?" "Did she come into our house?" "I found her." "She said not to tell you." "Did she?" "She dropped the things she had in her hands." "Did she?" "It came to me in my prayers this morning." "The ship coming from England with a letter from my cousin." "A letter concerning you." "This gift has been given to us by our dear Lord, so that I might influence you, teach you the bliss and the blessing it is for a woman to know her place in this world." "And to accept it." "Let us pray that Silas comes home first." "And you never have to use it." "Let us pray that Silas comes home." " Hold it straight." " Will do." "I will do." "We hope to see you dancing at the celebrations, Mistress Rutter." "I will surely dance, sir." "Governor, I've put together a party of ten militia to search for Henry Sharrow." "If I'd wanted you to set out, I'd have spoken to you, Marshal." "Perhaps it's possible Sharrow has De la Warr's map." "Maybe that concerns you." "Perhaps." "What are you doing, Verity?" "It's a lovely thing." "I'm looking at it." "Verity, did you intend to take the box?" "Now why would I do such a thing as that?" "Verity, please tell me the truth." "God is our witness here today." "And was God our witness when my pa beat the last breath from my ma's mouth with his mortal fists?" "Perhaps God brought me here now, so that I might spare you from the gallows." "Consider that, Verity." "Redwick." "Ma'am, there's quoits and loggits and hot cockles and..." "And a seesaw." "Lady Yeardley?" "Alice, do you know where I might find Mistress Rutter?" "No, ma'am." "W-What is it, ma'am?" "Lady Yeardley?" "This is not acceptable..." "Where is your wife, Mr Rutter?" "Ah..." "Meredith!" "My husband knows that the box is missing." "He will realise you have taken it and..." "Verity..." "You will not even make it to the gallows." "He will put his sword through you before you can even speak." "I plead with you." "I will return it." "Where is it?" "You must tell me you did not look inside of the box." "The box is locked." " But I'm sure Verity could open it." " Shall we open it?" " No." " I suggest you ask someone else." " Verity." "Our governor, Sir George Yeardley, will now bless this occasion and remind us all of the holy purpose of this day." " Thank you, Reverend." " People..." "The feast of St John the Baptist is a day for us to celebrate that man who foretold the coming of Christ." "The man who baptised Jesus." "I know what's in the box, Temperance, and I know what it means." "When the festivities are over you and I are going to have the most cordial discussion concerning the ship arriving from England." "Is that so?" "It is so." "Give back the box, Verity." "We make this day a holy day." "Pick herbs tonight that they might be seethed with powers of healing." "Light fires that we might declare to God in heaven that we are here to worship." "And let us rejoice in our loyalty to God, to the King, and to one another." "So, Sir George..." "Feast." "Be merry." "Thank you." "My dear, forgive me." "I intended to tell you." "It has been such an abundant day." "Your box." "I moved it for safety's sake." "Just as soon as he was well enough Henry set out for the uplands." "Silas, is your brother a wise man?" "In his own way, yes." "The uplands are beyond Pamunkey influence." "An Englishman might be taken by our enemies." "Do you think that would stop Henry?" "No, I don't." "We were told you went with him?" "I did, yes." "But I came back." "We had a fight, so I left him out there." "Can you tell us which direction he took?" "He's headed high up into the mountains." "I will come with you, Silas." "Why would you do that?" "I would prefer that you did not die alone in the distant mountains searching for your brother." " That's right." "Jump, jump, jump, jump!"