Summary

Skye listens to the opera coming up through the floor from her father’s room downstairs, waiting for him to fall asleep so that she and Jane can go and check on Jeffrey. She is looking out the window when a rubber tipped arrow hits the screen in front of her. Jeffrey steps out where she can see him, and she goes downstairs to let him in calling for an emergency MOOPS as she passes her sisters. She lets Jeffrey in, telling him they were just about to come to him when he informs them he’s run away. Skye is once again convinced it is all her fault despite Jeffrey’s assurances to the contrary.

They go upstairs and after invoking the Penderwick Family Honor, Jeffrey tells them his plans to go to Boston. He tells them about his trip...