◼︎ Chapter 9 / Chapter IX

What is a whetstone and what it used for?
Becky went to see a parade. Who was in the parade?
Isabel sees Ruth has been dressed up by Madam. Ruth is wearing a navy-blue brocade short gown.
- Look at the brocade dress in the photograph below.
- How would you describe a brocade dress?
Lady Seymour doesn’t like the name “Isabel Finch” and tells Isabel she is now “Sal Lockton.”
- What do you think about Lady Seymour changing Isabel’s name like that?
Ruth has been crying. We don’t really learn exactly why.
- Why do you think she might have been crying?
Goldbuttons talks about a Committee to Detect Conspiracies.
- What is a conspiracy?
- Look it up if you need to.
- Hint: Google conspiracy definition kids
Inkstained complains that “Parliament is as far away as the moon.”
- What is Parliament?
- Hint: Scroll down to see a photo of the Houses of Parliament.
“Madam’s linen chest, the one she had fussed about when we arrived, was in the middle of the library floor, the top thrown open.”
- What’s in the chest?
- What will this be used for?
- See photograph of traveling chest from 1800 below.
By the time the men rose to leave, Isabel knew what she “had to do.”
- What does Isabel need to do?
BONUS: Write a question for this chapter.
- Answer your own question.