#5

"When the last tuft was in place they sat on the fragrant springy cushion and rested, liking out over the sunny meadow toward the gleaming band of the river. For a long time neither of them spoke. Nat sat munching on a straw. Kit leaned her bare elbows back on the prickly thatch. The sun pressed against her with an almost tangible weight. All about them was a lazy humming of bees, broken by the sharp clatter of a locust. The queer rasping call of the blackbird rose from the grass, and now and then they caught the flash of scarlet on the glossy black wings.
This is the way I used to feel in Barbados, Kit thought with surprise (125)."

This is the second place in the book where Kit ever talks about her feelings of homesickness with someone. This helps to characterize both of these characters as people that might be New Englanders, but will break the rules of their colony. Both of them are laying on top of the 'witches' house. No one in this community ever ventures here. They fear and hate the 'witch', but Nat and Kit have both come to love the 'witch', Hannah. I am guessing and hoping that Kit will end up marrying Nat and not getting engaged to William.

I did not find out why puritains hate quakers. In the book, Kit asks her Aunt why this is so and she just replies saying they are hated because they are quakers. That is all the answer Kit recieves.

What will become of Nat?