Summary

Chapter 57 is titled “Botille.” Botille dreams her mother is rocking her to sleep. She wakes the following morning, unafraid and confident she will find Sazia and Plazensa. No one is at the meeting place and Botille wanders around, though that puts her in danger of being found by the soldiers. She waits for three days, hiding when she sees fishing boats pass by and feels that God hides her from those who might have turned her in. On the fourth morning, after seeing nothing of either her sisters nor Symo, she begins walking “south and inland, far from the spying eyes of the sea” (404).

Chapter 58 is titled “Botille.” She continues to walk, occasionally finding food and stealing a shawl to keep warm. She sees clergymen sometimes, and avoids them until she is forced by hunger to accept soup from a group of Franciscan...