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Mr. Noakes has seen Mrs. Chater in a carnal embrace in the gazebo with Septimus Hodge.
Act 1, Scene 1Septimus tutors Thomasina, who comes up with entropy theory by noticing how jam is stirred.
Act 1, Scene 1Septimus flatters Chater into withdrawing his challenge to a duel for sleeping with his wife.
Act 1, Scene 1Lady Croom disapproves of Richard Noakes's changes to the classical gardens at Sidley Park.
Act 1, Scene 1Ezra Chater challenges Septimus Hodge to a duel for insulting his poetry.
Act 1, Scene 3Lady Croom borrows Septimus's copy of ''The Couch of Eros'' for Lord Byron.
Act 1, Scene 3Lady Croom ousts the Chaters and Lord Byron after Mrs. Chater is seen leaving Byron's room.
Act 2, Scene 6Lady Croom finds Septimus's letters intended to be opened if he were killed in the duel.
Act 2, Scene 6Septimus and Thomasina share a waltz and a kiss on the night she dies in a fire.
Act 2, Scene 7Bernard Nightingale arrives at Sidley Park where Hannah Jarvis is doing research.
Act 1, Scene 2Bernard reveals his erroneous theory that Lord Byron killed Ezra Chater and fled the country.
Act 1, Scene 2Bernard supports the theory with the fact that Byron and Septimus Hodge were at Cambridge together.
Act 1, Scene 2Bernard learns Lord Byron was at Sidley Park at the right time to fit his theory.
Act 1, Scene 4Practicing his lecture, Bernard is challenged by Hannah and Valentine about the theory's accuracy.
Act 2, Scene 5Bernard gives Hannah a book with information about the hermit, including a birthdate and pet.
Act 2, Scene 5Hannah discovers Chater the poet and botanist are the same, disproving Bernard's theory.
Act 2, Scene 7Gus gives Hannah a drawing of Septimus and Plautus, proving her theory.
Act 2, Scene 7| Scene | Summary |
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| Act 1, Scene 1 | Thomasina Coverly, age 13 in 1809, is studying at a large table in a room at Sidley Park, an English manor house. Thomas... Read More |
| Act 1, Scene 2 | In the same room, in the present time, nothing has changed. Hannah Jarvis is wearing comfortable modern clothes as she f... Read More |
| Act 1, Scene 3 | Once again it is 1809, and Septimus Hodge is tutoring Thomasina Coverly in Latin. Jellaby is waiting for a reply to a le... Read More |
| Act 1, Scene 4 | Back in the present time, Hannah Jarvis is reading to Valentine Coverly from Thomasina Coverly's notes in which she echo... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 5 | Bernard Nightingale practices his upcoming lecture with the Coverlys as his audience. When Hannah Jarvis interrupts with... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 6 | The scene shifts to 1809. At 5:30 in the morning, Septimus Hodge enters after an apparent early morning rabbit hunt, sur... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 7 | The scene opens to the modern Coverlys in 19th-century costumes. Sitting at the table, Chloë and Valentine Coverly read ... Read More |
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