But why was she in the past, and would she ever again see her own time? And then for the first time she began to grasp the meaning of love. She didn’t want to stay until she met a marvelous boy named Judah. She proved to be Beatie Bow, a child of a century earlier.Ībigail was taken in by the Bows, amid whispered comments about “the gift”, as though there were something she was supposed to do. Abigail followed, and suddenly found herself in The Rocks of another time. When Abigail tried to speak to her, the child ran off into a part of the city called The Rocks. She had never seen the game before, nor the odd child who always seemed to be watching but never taking part. It was while she was angry and resentful about the whole thing that she began to watch children playing a game called Beatie Bow. Why had her father gone off with someone much younger than her mother? And why, now that he wanted to come back, was her mother agreeable. Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough fourteen-year-old gir, except that she could not understand the adults around her.
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