◼︎ Chapter 36 / Chapter XXXVI

Use mathematics to work out how many days are recorded in Chapter 36.
Due to fever, Lady Seymour’s skin is the color of an old beeswax candle.
- Look at the photographs of beeswax candles below.
- What color is Lady Seymour’s skin?
Whenever Lady Seymour sleeps, Isabel would “steal as many sentences as I could.”
- What does Isabel mean by this?
How do we know things are not going well for the rebels?
What was wrong with the pork the British gave the prisoners?
Lady Seymour knows Isabel has been taking food to the prison.
- Lady Seymour is not angry with Isabel.
- Why not?
What book does Isabel take off the shelf?
- Hint: Look at a photograph of the book’s title page below.
Whose side is the young man in the bookstore on?
- How do you know?
The young man behind the counter gives Isabel a thin volume, a booklet he “should burn.”
- He says, “Read it. Pass it on.”
- What might this be?

A+ BONUS: When the young man gives Isabel the booklet Isabel lies and says she cannot read.