![]() ![]() ![]() For the townspeople are mistrustful of this strange girl who already has startled them with her "magic" ability to stay afloat in water. Her spontaneous friendship with Hannah, an old woman whose Quaker affiliations have branded her as a witch, and her secret teaching of a young child who suddenly is stricken with a strange malady, seriously threaten her safety. But despite her tastes for finery, Kit is possessed with courage and conviction. Kit, a staunch royalist, accustomed to the easy life of a slave-manned plantation, and her fanatic Puritan uncle are instinctive antagonists. When young Kit Tyler comes from her Barbados home to colonial Connecticut, she is unprepared for the austerity of her uncle's home. ![]()
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