Summary

The 22nd chapter is narrated in the third-person past with a focus on Billington. He watched the newcomers arrive so he could greet them as was customary. To his surprise, he saw Morton, who was his old friend who had introduced him to trading with the Natives. They went off to get a drink together.

In the 23rd chapter, Alice narrates in the first-person past. She told her stepson, John, that his mother had loved him very much. He asked her if it was true that his mother had slipped and fell off the Mayflower. She did not know what to tell him.

In the 24th chapter, Eleanor Billington narrates in the first-person past. She was delighted when her husband brought Morton home for drinks. Morton told them he was writing a book called The New English Canaan and exposing Puritan hypocrisies. He...