Chapter 8 A World to Come Summary

The Lytes do go to their country house in Middleton but return to Boston barely ahead of a mob. Mr. Lyte has had a "fit" and his daughter is concerned for him. Cilla gets Johnny to return to Middleton with her to help retrieve the silver she was unable to save. While Cilla packs the silver and cleans up from the mob Johnny finds a family Bible. From it he learns that his grandfather was merchant Lyte's older brother and that Johnny's mother married a Frenchman named LaTour. He refuses to take his own silver cup when Cilla offers it to him recognizing that the house and everything about it belongs to the past. He and Cilla close the shutters and return to Boston.

Rab, desperate for a good gun, is caught trying to buy...