Summary

The journey is winding down to an end as Sarah and her father arrive to the area that their little house will be built upon. Sarah is weary as she walks, picking flowers to tuck into Thomas’s reins and to put in her hair. She remarks that they must be well-dressed for when they come home, but at the mention of the word home stops to think about what that will entail. Sarah asks where they will live if there is no house, to which her father replies that he and Thomas will build a small hut around a cave until one is built. Sarah laughs at the though of Thomas building a cabin and then her father mentions it will be a cabin like Mistress Robinson’s house. Sarah, however, replies that it won’t be like that and when prompted to...