--and yet----(Looks in kettle.) Alas! Alas! I am not skilled in
brewing.

RESOLUTE
(half against her will).
There's cure for ague in our forest herbs.

SARAH.
Oh, had I but your knowledge--! (With an effort towards healing the
breach.) If you'll take back your words about sin and ignorance, never
again will I call you a mincing white-faced moppet--even if you are
one.

RESOLUTE(provokingly prim).
I may not take back words that I have spoken.

SARAH.
Then you _are_ a prim-mouthed, white-faced jade, even as I have said.

RESOLUTE.
And that you dwell in sin and ignorance becomes more and more certain.

[They face each other as if with crossed swords, left.

GOODY GLEASON
(sighing).
Is the posset done?

SARAH
(despairing).
I cannot tell whether it be done or no.

RESOLUTE
(with her back turned).
If the brew be clear, then the posset is not yet done; but if a little
wax float on the top----(Sees Sarah's perplexity, and comes to fire
with the air of one bestowing wisdom.) All maids should know how to
make healing potions. I marvel that you've learned no hearthstone arts.

SARAH
(as Resolute seats herself at fire).
Mayhap, if I had a hearth I could compass such knowledge, Mistress. But
we be forest folk with no roof but the stars.

RESOLUTE.
You chose----

SARAH
(busying herself with pouring the posset into cup and giving it to
Goody Gleason).
Aye, Mistress, I know well what you would say. We chose to live the
life of Merrymount. We brooked no Puritan rule: therefore on our heads
be it! We suffer for the love of freedom. (Keenly.) Do you not suffer,
too, for the same cause? It was for freedom you and yours left England.
It was for freedom we and ours left Wollaston. You could not brook
restraint: no more could we.

RESOLUTE.
But your revels--your songs and dancing----

SARAH.
We meet misfortune with a laugh instead of with a groan: where is the
harm in that?

RESOLUTE
(with dawning friendliness).
Indeed you give me much to ponder on.

SARAH
(with a burst of candor).
Since I've known you I do not think so hard on Puritans. (Half-
wistfully.) I wish--I wish I had your arts and knew wise household
ways. I fear we be but addle-pates at Merrymount. I cannot brew a
medicine, nor spin, nor----

RESOLUTE
(rising).
Come, I will teach you! (They go to spinning-wheel.) Aye, sit you so,
and mind you do not break the thread. So! So!

[While the spinning lesson is going on, Scarlett and his followe