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