MD3PAD 184-186

[Toby G Levy]

        In his visit to the Parsons house searching for the Cock Lane
Ghost, Mason sees famous lovers Margaret Woffington and David Garrick.
Garrick was an actor whose craft will come under discussion 200 pages
later.

        Mason returns to his home town of Sapperton and sees his sisters
and his sons. William is five years old. Doctor Isaac is three. Mason
gives them each a toy boat and they take them down to a stream with
Mason.

        In July Bradley takes sick and dies. He is buried in
Minchinhampton alongside his wife. A couple of pages later it is
mentioned that she had died in 1757, five years before Bradley.

        As he pays his respects, Mason thinks back to the time when he
and Rebekah lived next door to the Bradleys and enjoyed social activities
together. Mason was still mooning over Susannah. Mason sees at the
funeral Susannah's brother Sam and Susannah's seventeen year old
daughter. They advise him that Bradley only wanted the family near and
they turn him away.

        Susannah's daughter ("Sukie?") and Rebekah spent hours into the
night talking while Mason worked in the observatory. Rebekah tells
Susannah's daughter that she was directed to marry Mason by two
mysterious gentlemen.

Toby