Sarah Character Analysis

Sarah’s husband is a British soldier; they join several other couples in living with the Locktons. As Becky has disappeared by this point, Sarah takes over as the boss in the kitchen. Though she’s not outright cruel to Isabel, Sarah is curt, exacting, and short-tempered; Isabel attributes some of this to the fact that Sarah is pregnant and very uncomfortable. However, Sarah and Isabel do form an understanding, and Sarah continues to allow Isabel to fetch water from the Tea Water Pump, going against Madam’s orders. Though Sarah is initially upset to be in the Colonies at all, when she has her baby and names him George, it’s implied that perhaps her loyalties are changing. She suggests that she and her husband might stay in North America after the war is over—and notes that George (the first name of both the king of England and of the American General Washington) is a good name no matter where one lives. Isabel is sad when Sarah and George move to a house for new mothers and babies, as she’d looked forward to a baby brightening up her days.