Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 Summary

In chapter nine, Nat is semi-delirious and half-conscious in an isolation room at Guy's Hospital in 1999. The nurses on duty do not notice that he looks and sounds different than other boys his age because they have never seen him before. The duty nurse, Nurse Stevens, hums a sixteenth century lullaby, which calms Nat and lulls him to sleep.

In chapter ten, Nat moves into Shakespeare's home. Mistress Fawcett, who tends to Shakespeare's home, greets him. She shows Nat to his bedroom, which has a real bed and pillows, to Nat's surprise. Mistress Fawcett informs Nat that when he is working upstairs, no one is to disturb Shakespeare.

Shakespeare lives only a few short minutes from the new Globe, and Nat remarks again at how different Elizabethan London is from modern day London. Mistress Fawcett warns Nat not to...