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 followers
enter from left background, carrying fish, game, and wild fruits,
Scarlett in advance of the others. For a moment he stands transfixed by
what he sees. Then tiptoes back, beckons to others, and points out the
picture. Pantomime of surprise and stifled mirth.

SCARLETT
(mockingly).
Look! Look! Our Sarah hath turned Puritan! While as for Mistress
Endicott--! Come, Faunch, a tune, lad, a tune! A wreath for our worthy
guest! (Approaching Resolute.) Mistress, 'tis time you learned to trip
it about the maypole. I claim your hand for a measure----