Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts

Hope tells Oneco that she is innocent, hoping he will understand her. He does not want to harm her, he is not a cruel man, but he knows that he will keep his promise if they harm his wife. A storm arises. Mononotto is struck by lightning. Oneco pilots the boat to the shore of another island and drags him out. Hope realizes that this might be an opportunity to escape. She comes upon a group of drunken sailors in the woods, under command of a man named Chaddock. They have been barred from town for their disorderly behavior. One of them wakes and advances on her with a terrible leer. She escapes into the water and several of them begin to chase her. She finds a boat and pushes off, unaware that there is a man named Antonio in the bottom of it. When he wakes up, he, being a Catholic, believes that she is an angel. She blesses a bracelet for him in return for him rowing her to safety. She walks the streets of Boston, drenched and despairing, when she is found by Sir Philip’s page, Roslin.

Roslin tells Hope that he is forsaken, and Philip would be glad if he were dead.