First introduced to Thomasina and Septimus, her tutor, teaching her the definition of “carnal embrace” but Septimus is swept away to rumors that he has slept with Mrs. Chater, wife to Ezra Chater. Chater wants a duel with Septimus to defend his wife's honor, but Septimus convinces him that he only slept with her because she wanted Ezra’s poem to receive a good review. Lady Croom , Noakes and Brice discuss and complain about Noakes’s plans to change the garden.
Scene 2 is in the present day, Bernard comes to Sidley Park and meets Hannah, who is interested in the Sidley hermit while Bernard is more concerned with Chater’s poetry. Bernard seems to think that in a duel Byron killed Chater. At this time the current residents, the Coverly siblings are introduced.In 1809, Thomasina often frustrated with her studiy of Latin decides that she mustfind an equation that will express the form of an apple leaf.Chater again wants to duel after he learned Septimus did not in fact right a good review on his book.
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Valentine notices Thomasina’s use of iteration. Hannah remains skeptical about Bernard’s hypothesis, Valentine reveals that Byron definitely stayed as a guest at Sidley Park, because his hunting was recorded in a game book. which Bernard goes off to find Hannah reads\new information from an article about the hermit being obsessed with mathematical ideas similar to how Thomasina was. In 1809, Jellaby tells Septimus that BRice, Byron and the Chaters all left that morning after Mrs.Chater and Byron were found together, who Lady Croom was apparently having an affair with. Since Septimus was expecting to duel Chater that morning. he wrote a love letter to Lady Croom in case he died. He also wrote a “second letter, however, was not addressed to our ladyship” (69) but for