THE STORM

Summary (Continued)

PART 4

Sarah brews Rufus some tea that she has had limited success with in curing the ague, and Dana is struck by how old she looks. She had dropped a kettle on her foot and hadn't been able to walk much for a while. Dana finally decides to try the Excedrin she had brought in her bag to help break Rufus' fever and take the edge off his pain. It turns out that she has a long, hard night and six more just like it. During the time she nurses Rufus, Alice also comes in. She also looks older, but even more, she looks harder. She has lost two babies, and the one still alive is sickly. His name is Joe, and he is even redheaded like Rufus. Dana almost cries when she hears this, not just because she feels badly for Joe, but also because she........

PART 5

Dana puts herself back to work with Sarah and Carrie immediately to help herself adjust to life on the plantation again. Nigel and Carrie now have three sons. Nigel loves them dearly, but mourns the fact that they are slaves. She also sees how much Alice loves her sickly little boy. She tells Dana that Rufus had made her allow the doctor care for her two other children when they developed fevers. The man purged them and bled them, and Dana knows that those types of medical techniques are really what killed them. Alice now.........

PART 6

Unfortunately, when she awakens, she sees Rufus' face rather than Kevin's. She gets to her feet, refusing his help, while he tells her that it's obvious that she's no good in the fields. She turns and stares at him in such a hard way that Rufus warns her not to do anything stupid. She answers him sarcastically that she's done so many stupid things, like saving his life time after time. He justifies his behavior by declaring that he'd saved her from Fowler who might have beaten her to death. She responds to this by turning her back on.........

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