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The mistress sets Lyddie free in the anger that Lyddie took a vacation so Lyddie decides to become a factory girl, in Lowell. Triphena provides her with everything she would need for the road. Lyddie starts to move to her destination.

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Lyddie thinks she's ugly. After the bear attacked Lyddie talked. "Whew," Lyddie said. "Lucky I'm so ugly. A pretty girl couldn't a scared that old rascal!"(pg.4). She suffers from a massive inferiority complex. she believes her father is coming back to the farm. Lyddie protests and doesn't want to go to Clarissa's house so she stays at the farm. After about two weeks later, Charlie came back and together they stayed at the farm.

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Lyddie and Charlie have to leave the farm because of the jobs their mom assigned them. Since they didn't tell their mom about the calf they decided to sell it and keep the money instead of giving it to their mother. On the way, they came across Quaker Stevens with the calf that is half his because the bull was his. Lyddie wants to ask Stevens if he wants to buy the calf but she feels guilty because it's half his so she keeps her mouth shut. Quaker Stevens sees the calf and wants to buy it he proposes twenty five dollars and Lyddie agrees. The Quakers invite them in and give them a decent meal.

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Lyddie's mom suffers from depression and other mental illnesses such as anxiety. Lyddie refuses to go with her to Clarissa's and stays at the farm. Around two weeks later, Charlie joins her at the farm. Lyddie's mom sends them a letter. Lyddie's mom doesn't know how to spell. Lyddie doesn't either. In the letter she sends Lyddie and Charlie, her mom writes, "The world hav not come to the end yit."(pg.9). Her mom made Lyddie work as a maid and made Charlie work at the mill. Lyddie doesn't believe in Clarissa's prediction. Her mom does though. Lyddie's mom, Rachel and Agnes left the farm to go to Vermont to live with Clarissa, Lyddie's Aunt.

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Lyddie doesn't want to be seen with the Quackers. She doesn't want their help but then they give her and Charlie a ride to their new jobs. The younger son of the Quackers, Luke offers to shovel snow off their hut's roof. Lyddie declines but Charlie doesn't. While going to the tavern, Lyddie is treated like an immature kid.

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Lyddie isn't well treated by the people at the tavern. Before going in, she knows she isn't free anymore. Lyddie knows that she now works for someone. She doesn't talk a lot and works hard. She meets a woman in a pretty silk dress on her first day. The woman goes on a coach and comes back long after. The woman is a farmer's daughter. The woman tells Lyddie, "You'd do well in the mill, you know. You'd clear at least two dollars a week. And" she paused "you'd be independent." Lyddie thinks the woman was lying, she was sure of it. Lyddie didn't believe the woman. Lyddie thought, no girl could make so much money in a week's time. She answered the woman and said, " My mother's promised me here." Lyddie finds the mistress a little plump.

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Lyddie finds herself so dirty compared to the other people in the city and the tavern. She thinks a lot about Charlie and hopes he is well. She missed Charlie. For her missing Charlie was like wearing stone around her neck. Lyddie wishes to see him again. Lyddie slept under the eaves in a windowless passage at Cutler's.

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After the frog in a butter churn story, she really wished she would see Charlie again to tell him that story. In the winter, Charlie visits her and Lyddie wants to tell him everything but doesn't dare because other people were in the room.

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Lyddie learns about slave catchers by overhearing men talk about it. She wondered what she would do if she met a runaway slave. If she would catch a runaway slave she would earn 100 dollars. That would be enough to pay her father's debts. Triphena told her it was understandable that the slaves wanted to run away. She explained they were stuck like animals in cages.

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By the second week of April, the sap had ceased to run, but it had been a good sugaring season. The mistress decided to take a large selection of the molded maple sugar to Boston. The mistress could pay for her trip by selling the sugar, and it would give her a chance to see the big city and her perpetually ailing sister. Work did not disappear with the departure of the mistress, but it became as pleasant as a holiday. In two weeks, Lyddie and Triphena and Willie, when they could catch him, turned the huge house inside out with scrubbing and cleaning. "Well," said the cook one night. "The mistress earned herself a trip. I think the rest of us have, too." Triphena doesn't want to go anywhere but Lyddie wants to go home. Triphena tells Lyddie she can go. Lyddie doesn't believe her. Lyddie was up before the sun, but could tell the day was going to be a good one. She took a lunch packet of bread and cheese and some molded sugar. Lyddie begins her trip home. In less than an hour, she reaches the mill. A man tells her that Charlie isn't here and tells her to go ask up at the house. A woman opens the door and lets Lyddie inside. The woman says that Charlie is at school and that her husband is very fond of Charlie. Lyddie wants to tell the woman that Charlie is part of her family not theirs but she doesn't say anything. She gives the woman the packet of molded sugar and leaves. Lyddie reaches her home and props the ladder up to one of the windows and climbs in. A man is standing by the fireplace. It isn't Luke Stevens. His skin was dark and his eyes shone. It was a very dark skin toned man.

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Lyddie doesn't want to go to the mill again to fetch Charlie because she doesn't want to embarrass him. When she arrives home she sees a black man in front of the fire. She thinks about turning him in.

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When she comes home to the cabin , she finds that somebody was in there... It was a runaway slave called Ezekial. Euzekial is a preacher. She didn't really like him at first because he entered her cabin and made her think of sad memories. After hearing her story she starts to like him as a friend. Then she does something unexpected, Lyddie gives Ezekial the money that she counted at the tavern.

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Lyddie takes a stage coach for Lowell after working hard in a tavern. Everybody was well dressed but Lyddie. But then the stagecoach got stuck in a hole. All the men tried to push it out of the muddy hole, but it was definitely stuck. After at least a quarter of an hour of watching, she could stand their stupidity no longer. Lyddie took off her worn shawl, tied it about her waist, and tucked up her skirts under it.

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The man in her house, Euzekial, tells him her story and she can't turn him in anymore. Euzekial said that he was a preacher and that reading pages aloud to your country is not easy especially pages from the Bible. Lyddie does something unexpected. She gives Euzekial the calf money that she counted every night at Cutler's Tavern.

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Lyddie woke up and thought it was the bear throwing the pot of oatmeal over. Mrs. Bedlow tells Lyddie that her clothes turned into mud stew in her kettle and that she needs to get new clothes. Lyddie meets Amelia, Betsy and Prudence.

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Lyddie is introduced to the mill by an overseer called Mr. Marsden. She couldn't hear his explanations because of the noise. Then a nice girl called Diana comes and helps her to understand the machines. When Lyddie sees Diana at work she tries it to. But when she tries to put the machine it was too much load and even after all the work at the farm she hardly could action the lever. She feels ashamed to not have hardly enough strength work the machine alone.

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Lyddie meets Diana another factory girl who helps her with her machinery because it is too heavy for her. Diana helps Lyddie with the heavy machines. The noise was to overwhelming for Lyddie because there isn't much noise at a farm. So Diaa explains to Lyddie how to work the machine.

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Lyddie's feet have swollen and her boots are now too small for her. Lyddie want's to go to bed early, but Betsy persuades her not to. Betsy asks if Lyddie wants to hear Betsy read her book, and Lyddie agreed. Betsy doesn't bother to explain the story to her but Lyddie can understand. She finds Oliver a little like her little Charlie.

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Lyddie is exhausted after her first whole day in the mill. In the evening, Lyddie had lost all appetite. The very smell of supper made her nauseous, beans heavy with pork fat and brown injum bread with orange cheese, fried potatoes, of course, and flapjacks with apple sauce, baked Indian pudding with cream and plum cake for dessert. Lyddie nibbled at the brown bread and washed it down with a little scalding tea. She longed only to get to the room, take off her boots, massage her abused feet, and lay down her aching head. Lyddie dragged herself from the table and up the stairs. Betsy was already there before her, reading her current novel. She laughed at the sight of Lyddie. "The first full day! And up to now you thought yourself a strapping country farm girl who could do anything, didn't you?" (pg.77). Lyddie did not try to answer back. She simply sank to her side of the double bed and took off the offending shoes and began to rub her swollen feet. Betsy proposed that Lyddie should wear an older pair of shoes. Lyddie nodded. Lyddie decided to wear Triphena's shoes without stuffing for tomorrow. She slipped on her shabby night shift, and slid under the quilt. Betsy proposed to read to Lyddie. Lyddie nodded gratefully and Betsy started reading out loud from where she left off of reading in her head. The book that Betsy read aloud to Lyddie was about a boy who asked his overseer for more gruel. The overseer screamed and said that the boy should be hung.

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It was July. Lyddie wishes she could go home. Lyddie has no one to talk to in the mill. All her friends are gone to visit some family members or explore a place. Lyddie was grateful to be all alone in her room. She decides to make a decision and goes to the bookstore to purchase Oliver Twist. A man is sitting in the bookstore. Lyddie tells him she wants to purchase Oliver Twist. "Ah," the man said. "Mr. Dickens. An admirable choice."

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Lyddie struggles with the noise, the dust, and the hard work on her first whole day at the factory. Lyddie tries to do a knot like Diana , but it turns out clumsy. The work is even harder than the one at the farm.

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It's sad moments for Lyddie. Betsy had finished Oliver Twist. Diana,Prudence Betsy and Amelia were leaving the factory to go join there families. Lyddie was kind of happy because she had the whole room to her self and she controlled 4 looms so she got more money than before. That was what she needed if she wanted to repay the debt.

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Lyddie was good at her work. She was making almost 2.50$ a week above her 1.75$ board. Some girls complained that their piece rates dropped. Prudence was the first of the workers to leave for good. She was encouraged by her suitor boyfriend to stop work and go live with him. But she didn't only leave because of that. She started coughing a lot because of all the sawdust. The mill started speeding up the machines.

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Lyddie avoids Diana to not look like she was cooperating with her business. She doesn't want to be send off the factory for wanting to be paid more. When they offered her " The voice of Industry" she backed away like it was a hot iron. When writing a letter to her mom, her spelling has much improved thanks to Oliver Twist.

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Lyddie doesn't want to have a lot of contact with Diana because Diana and other people are protesters and could get fired and blacklisted from all the mills in America. Lyddie doesn't want to be fired and blacklisted of course because Lyddie needs this job to have enough money to pay off her father's debt. Lyddie gets hit in the head by a shuttle. Diana rushes to Lyddie and helps Lyddie go to the boardinghouse. They go to the second floor of the boardinghouse instead of Lyddie's room. Diana sent for a doctor, Dr. Craven. Lyddie was asleep when the doctor arrived but she awoke to the sound of murmurs. Then Lyddie recognized the doctor. She had seen him before with Diana last summer on Merrimack Street.

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Even if Lyddie wasn't totally recovered, she chooses to go to work. Lyddie tried to go to sleep early, but her head throbbed more when she was lying down. Amelia said she was leaving the factory because it was affecting her mental health. A week after, she left.

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She told no one about the money. She wanted to tell Diana. Diana, she knew, would rejoice with her, but she decided to wait. She was so close now to having the money she needed and when she did, she would surprise Diana by signing the petition. Then, not more than a week after Luke had brought the money, she had a second visitor who turned her life upside down. Lyddie washed her stockings and underwear in the basin. Suddenly she was aware of Tim standing in the doorway. He said a gentleman came to see her. A gentleman, that must be Charlie, Lyddie thought. Instead, it was her uncle, uncle Judah. Lyddie asked where Rachel was and Uncle Judah replied in the wagon, I brought her to you. He went to the wagon and brought skinny little Rachel and her little bag of stuff. Uncle Judah said that they were forced and Lyddie's mother was in Brattleboro. Lyddie said that she will come and feth her mother, soon as she can. As soon as Lyddie paid off the debt. Lyddie will take her back home and take care of her herself. Uncle Judah asked where. Lyddie said home, back to the farm. Uncle Judah replies that they're selling it for Brattleboro. No Lyddie screams, no one can sell that land except my father. Uncle Judah replied, he give permission. Lyddie asks, when and how. Uncle Judah answers, before he left. He had it wrote out and put his mark to it. In case-ey? Lyddie wanted to scream at him but how could she? You got no right, Lyddie said. "We got no choice," the man said stubbornly. "We be responsible." And he was gone.(pg.120). Lyddie took Rachel to Mrs. Bedlow. Lyddie pleaded to Mrs.Bedlow for Rachel to stay. Mrs. Bedlow says yes but there are consequences. Later that night, Lyddie writes her brother, Charles. Lyddie and Rachie went to sleep.

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Her wound was better. She was going to work the next day. Amelia and Mrs. Bedlow argued on Lyddie going to work, but she didn't listen. A week after Amelia leaves because she thinks she became sour.

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For Lyddie , retiring money was painful. But what was even more painful was when she had to put 2 dollars into Mrs.. Bedlow's hand for taking care of Rachel. Now she had to spend money ton buy clothes for Rachel. Everything spent, she used more than 2 weeks wages. Brigid was slower than ever. Lyddie had to do all Brigid's work. But the next day the room felt hotter than usual. She felt like she should faint. Mr Mardsen was holding her. He was saying something but she couldn't hear what. He was bringing his mouth closer and closer to hers. She raised her foot and stomped on his before he could kiss her. She ran to the boarding house.

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Lyddie's Uncle, Uncle Judah stops at the mill and brings Lyddie her younger sister, Rachel. Lyddie doesn't know what to do with Rachel. She brings Rachel to Mrs. Bedlow and begs to let Rachel stay at the boardinghouse. Lyddie and Mrs. Bedlow knew it was risky because the rules were no children (except the keepers own.) Lyddie promises Mrs. Bedlow that she will pay Mrs. Bedlow well.

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It had been two weeks since she fell ill, and Dr. Morris still refused to let her go back to work. There was too much time in bed for Lyddie. One evening, Lyddie asks Diana if she still has a place at the mill. Diana answers of course and asks why. Lyddie replies that she stepped on Mr. Marsden's foot. Diana laughs. Rachel tells Lyddie that she wants to be a doffer and that Brigid's little sister is a doffer and she isn't much older than her. Lyddie replies that Rachel should be in school. Lyddie loved to braid Rachel's hair. She was ashamed she only had string to bind it instead of ribbon but ribbon cost money. Rachel was so pretty but so thin.

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When, Lyddie came to work, she felt like she needed to faint. She fell to the ground a little after. Mr. Mardsen tried to tell her something. Lyddie head was throbbing so she could not hear. He brang his lips closer to hers. Lyddie stomps on his foot before he could kiss her...

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Charlie finally came. He looked so big now and different now. He came to tell Lyddie he was taking Rachel with her. Rachel was sad and didn't want to leave Lyddie. A week after Rachel left, Lyddie found a letter from Luke Stevens saying he wanted Lyddie to come home and marry him. Instead of being happy Lyddie thought "What had Charlie said to the man to make him dare write such a letter? Do they think they can buy me? Do they think I will sell myself for that land? That land I have no one to take to anymore? I have nothing left but me Lyddie Worthen, do they think I will sell her? I will not be a slave. Nor will I be his freight, some homeless fugitive that Luke Stevens must bend down his lofty Quaker soul to rescue." Lyddie tore the letter into tiny bits and stuffed every shred of it into Mrs. Bedlow's iron cook stove, and then, to her own amazement, burst into tears.

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Rachel wants to become a doffer. Rachel tells Lyddie that Brigid's sister is little and she's a doffer. Lyddie replies to Rachel that she should be in school. Lyddie continues that she should be in school so that she wouldn't grow as ignorant as Lyddie. Rachel said that Lyddie isn't ignorant at all and that she sees her older sister read. Lyddie asks if Rachel wants her to read to her. Instead Rachel replies no and that she still wants to be a doffer.

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Lyddie had been alone before Rachel came, but she had not known what loneliness was this sharp pain in her breastbone dragging down into a dull, persistent heaviness. Workdays dragged by with nothing to look forward to at the evening bell. Rumor was that the corporation had slowed down the clock so that they would work longer. From time to time, Lyddie asked herself why she worked with everything gone but Lyddie brushed the question aside. Then, suddenly it was mid-July, and Lyddie realized that Diana was still at work, looking more sickly by the day. Lyddie tried to speak to Diana on the stairs, but she seemed hardly to hear the greetings. Lyddie thought Diana was probably sick. Lyddie thinks about signing the petition. She tells Diana and the others but it was too late. They had already submitted it. Lyddie thought she always came too late. While bringing Lyddie back to number five, Diana tells her that she's leaving. Lyddie asks why and Diana replies that it's because she's having a baby. Diana tells her about it and Lyddie thinks that it must be the doctor, Dr. Craven.

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Charlie finally came. He looked so big now and different now. he didn't seem as joyful as before and more serious. Charlie didn't look like the old Charlie she knew , which hurt Lyddie.He came to tell Lyddie he was taking Rachel with her. She didn't know how she could survive without Rachel. When Rachel left, she felt a gaping hole in her life. Everybody was consoling her, but they didn't understand the salvation Rachel brang to Lyddie. A week after Rachel left, Lyddie found a letter from Luke Stevens saying he wanted Lyddie to come home and marry him. Instead of being happy Lyddie thought "What had Charlie said to the man to make him dare write such a letter?Lyddie tore the letter into tiny bits and stuffed every shred of it into Mrs. Bedlow's iron cook stove, and then, to her own amazement, burst into tears. She didn't even know why she was working if the farm was sold now.

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Lyddie realizes that Diana doesn't look that happy anymore and that she's still working in mid-July. Lyddie sees that Diana looks more sickly by the day. Finally, Lyddie realizes that Diana is sick and wants to do her a favor so she thinks about signing the petition. Lyddie tells the girls at a meeting that she wants to sign the petition but it was too late. The girls had already submitted the petition. After the meeting, Diana walks Lyddie home. Lyddie says that she'll always come too late. "Lyddie..." Diana was hesitating, "I'll miss you." Lyddie didn't understand. Lyddie said, that she wasn't leaving. Diana replied that she's the one leaving. Lyddie asked if Diana was ailing or if it was because of that cussed petition. Diana said that she was having a baby. Lyddie asked who did this to her. Diana replies that no one did this to her. Lyddie said that that means he's free to marry. Diana answers that there's already a wife in Concord. Lyddie said that she was so blind and didn't realize. Diana answered that she hopes everyone was that blind. Then, Diana pushed Lyddie into number 5.

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Brigid had two looms now and soon would be able to tend another one soon. Most of the English girls went back and new Irish girls came. Brigid taught one of the Irish girls, like Lyddie taught her but with a gentler face. Brigid tells Lyddie that one of them is a bit slow. Lyddie answers that you're aloud to be a fool the first week or two. Brigid answers that she's still a fool and Lyddie such a scholar. Lyddie hands Brigid the paper pasted on Lyddie's loom. Brigid tells her she can't read and Lyddie starts to teach her. She made papers for the girl to post. Lyddie says, "A is for agent. B is for bobbin and Brigid too."(pg.158). B was instantly mastered. "C is for carding. D is for drawing in."(pg.158). Slowly Brigid starting understanding and everything worked out fine. One evening, she realized that Brigid was not beside her on the crowded stairs. She tried to wait but she got pushed forward by the crowd of mill girls. Lyddie was puzzled. Where was Brigid? She hurried back and climbed the four flights of stairs to the weaving room. In the weaving room was Brigid. Then she heard a strained, high-pitched voice. "Please, sir, please Mr. Marsden..." (pg.160). Lyddie snatched up the fire bucket. It was full of water, but she didn't notice the weight. "Please-no-" (pg.160). She ran down the aisle between the looms toward the voice and saw in the shadows Brigid, eyes white with fear, and Mr. Marsden's back. His hands were clamped on Brigid's arms. "Mr. Marsden!"(pg.160). At the sound of her hoarse cry, the overseer whirled about. She crammed the fire bucket down over his shiny pate, his bulging eyes, his rosebud mouth fixed in a perfect little o. The stagnant water sloshed over his shoulders and ran down his trousers. Lyddie took Brigid's hand and ran.

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By morning the laughter was long past. Lyddie kept replaying the scene in her head. She could not touch breakfast. Everyone was waiting for the bell to start work. Finally, when the bell rang, Lyddie jumped. She went to her looms. Brigid was not at her looms. One of the girls from Acre approached her. "Brigid says to tell you she's feeling a bit wee poorly. You are not to worry." Lyddie thought, the little coward, she's going to let me face it on my own,ey?, when I was the one that risked to help her. Mr. Marsden had come in. Lyddie kept her eyes carefully on her looms. The agent had come to Lyddie. It was time Lyddie thought. Lyddie asks if he sent for her. He says yes. The agent tells her to come and sit down. Lyddie sits down and the agent tells her she has been a troublemaker in the living room. The agent asks Lyddie questions and Lyddie answers them. Then Mr. Marsden comes and charges her of moral turpitude. Lyddie is dismissed.

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The bear had won. it had stolen her home, her family, her work, her good name. Thank God Rachel was safe. "They let me go." (pg.170). Lyddie tells Mrs. Bedlow. Mrs. bedlow doesn't understand why. Lyddie went to the bank and took her money. In total she had 243 dollars and 87 pence. Lyddie goes to the bookstore, buys Brigid Oliver Twist and buys herself a dictionary. Lyddie looks in the Dictionary and finds out what turpitude means. Lyddie told Brigid that she's dismissed. Brigid can't believe it. Lyddie hands her Oliver Twist and leaves so she doesn't have to listen to Brigid's sobs. That evening, just at the closing bell, she made her way to the frame houses of the overseers of the Concord Corporation. Lyddie didn't know which one was Mr. Marsden's so she just waited in the shadow of the first one so she could give him a piece of her mind. Finally he comes. Lyddie tells him that she is innocent and that if Mr. Marsden causes Brigid MacBride to lose her position then Lyddie will inform Mr. Marsden's wife what really happens after the mill girls are done for the day. I hope you sleep easy- before you die and leaves. Lyddie stops at Diana's house and finds out that Diana has a nice place to stay and people that treat her like family. Lyddie tells Diana what happened and stays for the night.

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Brigid had two looms now and was almost ready for her third. She was working as hard as ever. But one day, Lyddie got a diasastrous letter. The letter announced her her mother was dead. The next morning while she was waiting for Brigid, she never came down. She went up to see where she was. Mr Marsden was holding Brigid by her arms. Lyddie stormed in , took the fire bucket, and dumped it on the overseer's head. She ran away with Brigid.

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One more night along the way and the sky had turned into the underside of a thick quilt. The coachman pressed the team, eager to get to the next stop before the snow began to fall. It was nearly dusk when the coach took the final dash around the curve in the road that brought it to the door of Cutler's Tavern. At first, Triphena acted that she didn't know Lyddie. Soon, the game was over. Lyddie wanted to work at Cutler's Tavern again but she was already replaced. Lyddie stayed for the night. Lyddie walked to the mill but Charlie and Rachel were at school so she continued walking. Lyddie reached her house. She went inside. Then she saw a figure at the fireplace. It was Luke Stevens. He wanted Lyddie to stay for supper and for the night if she wanted. Lyddie said that she was going for good to Ohio, where there was a college that accepted woman the same as men. Lyddie said that she was gonna say bye to Rachel and Charlie and then go to Ohio. We can still hop, Luke Stevens, but she didn't say it aloud.

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Lyddie was called to the agents' office. The agent said she was accused of being a troublemaker. He asked a series of questions. he said she didn't look like a troublemaker. Lyddie requested Mr. Marsden to explain the situation to the agent and see who the agent believed. Mr Marsden accused Lyddie of moral turpitude. The agent said nobody accused of moral turpitude could stay at the mill. She got fired. She didn't even know what turpitude meant.