74 pages • 2 hours read
Diana GabaldonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Geillis finds Claire in her physician’s office and asks if Claire would like to go on an expedition to the nearby foothills with her. Claire agrees. Claire tells Geillis about finding the dried plants in her bed, which symbolize an ill-wish. Geillis says she can help Claire find out who sent her the ill-wish. While in the foothills, Claire finds a crying baby, who is clearly ill. Geillis instructs Claire to leave the baby there because the baby is a changeling. Claire starts to go back for the baby. Geillis grows impatient and calls Claire a “pig-headed English ass,” accusing her of putting both of their lives in danger (697). As Claire tries to find the baby, she runs into Jamie, who has come to meet her because night is falling. He too insists that the baby is dead and tells Claire that the changeling folklore is an excuse for grieving parents to mourn their sick child. “[M]aybe it will ease them a bit,” Jamie says of the parents, “to believe that it is the changeling who died, and think of their own child healthy and well, living forever with the fairies” (700). Claire notices the castle lanterns blazing in the distance and Jamie’s fancy dress.
By Diana Gabaldon
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon
An Echo in the Bone
An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber
Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Diana Gabaldon
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection