MIstress Starchie questions the five children (Anne and John Starchie, Margaret and Elizabeth Hardman, and Eleanor Holland) on how they have been handled, hoping for information she can take to preachers; they tell her that an angel came from God in the shape of a dove came to them and said they must follow it to heaven through a hole it would draw them through. They ran under the beds, where Elizabeth Hardman begins to make a hole, believing there is a boy on the other side who would help her do so.(Image 6)