News that the reverend has been falsifying his archeological findings has reached Vane, and the family is being ostracized. When she and her mother return home, they find the reverend and Uncle Miles have been banned from the excavation site. Paul and Faith spar verbally as he is a friend of the boy who was hurt in her father’s trap. Faith is ushered away by his son, Paul, a boy about her age, so that the adults may talk privately. Her mother stops by the church to see if Mr. The following day, Faith and her mother visit the village and are distressed when the shopkeepers snub them. She lies and tells her mother that he said they would pay for a doctor to tend to the boy. ![]() She is terrified to find him in what appears to be a drugged state. Faith enters her father’s study to ask if they might call a doctor. At the time, her father is in his study and has demanded that he not be disturbed. That night, a boy is injured in one of the reverend’s rabbit traps. Lambent, who frequently observes the work at the site. ![]() At tea that afternoon, Faith and her mother meet Mrs. Lambent, who owns the land and Ben Crock, the foreman. He introduces them to other members of the team: Mr. Jacklers escorts the reverend and his family to the excavation site. Vellet assures the reverend that the stranger was probably one of the local men using the easiest path to the beach, the reverend insists he will set rabbit traps to stop trespassers. The following day, Faith goes out to play with Howard and is surprised to see a stranger wandering near the Folly, an old tower where her father has put some of his specimens. Faith’s bedroom is the smallest, but she is happy as it is by the servants’ staircase so she can hear their gossip and even sneak out at night. When Faith arrives at their new home, Jane Vellet, the housekeeper, greets her. The reverend takes a position on the small island of Vane in order to help with an archeological dig. ![]() Inside, however, she longs to be allowed to read, learn and explore like her father, the Reverend Erasmus Sunderly, a renowned naturalist.įaith and her family, including her younger brother, Howard her mother, Myrtle and her Uncle Miles, are forced to leave London with her father due to a scandal surrounding the publication of her father’s recent findings. On the outside, Faith Sunderly is a typical, well-behaved 14-year-old girl of the Victorian era.
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