1692, The Girls and The Sickness, I'm very worried about Mama she suddenly got sick. It happened abruptly. Father had just gotten better what would I do if he got sick too. Paul couldn't do all the field work, I shouldn't be thinking these things, anyways we would have Sarah help us. Mama looks so placid on the bed. I kept watching her until Dorothy came into the room. She broke the news about how Sarah is leaving. I see Sarah walking down the road I call out her name but she doesn't even respond I feel so chagrined in her. It's too much Sarah leaving and Mama had started to worsen already, I run off to Papa to tell him about Mama. I was relieved when the doctor came, but when he was leaving, I was in earshot and heard him talking to Papa about …show more content…
Mama started getting better very slowly. One day Mama had asked me to go a walk with her, as we walked down and down the road, Mama asked me if I wanted to run down the meadow, I started to say no, but she said there is no such excuse, so I lifted up my skirts and ran down the meadow. I got tired and stopped I watched Mama from an aloof as she waved her hands and smiled. More and more days passed and eventually, Mama recovered. Some girls in Salem, Massachusetts have said that they have the power to tell if your a witch or not, and now the girls are coming to Andover I'm very timorous that they may choose Papa after all his sickness and mumblings. I wouldn't know what to without Papa Paul couldn't do the field work by himself, there are chores to do, Mama is pregnant, Edward needs to be watched, and we don't have Sarah to help us. Our life without Papa is wan. My life would be in shambles. I shouldn't have thought these inexorable thoughts, Papa won't be chosen this is all lies. When the Faulkners get to the meeting house they get an aisle so they all sit together. When the girls walk in they look like a normal person their clothes clean