Innuendo about finding male "company" and a suggestive use of the word "bushel." Women and men flirt and kiss.

A boy is carried back to the house crying after hurting his arm. A woman falls and hurts her foot; another falls and lands on concrete, suffering a serious concussion. Boys hit a woman with sticks in play. Talk of deaths.

"Idiot."

Adults drink frequently. Anne often drinks alone, sometimes right out of the wine bottle. Mention of getting someone drunk.

While in Lyme, Louisa decided to run up the stairs of the walkway and then jumped into Cpt. Wentworth's arms like before. Cpt. Wentworth told her not to do it, but Louisa did it anyway and as she jumps she falls to the ground and smacks her head onto the cement ground; which everyone around her shocked.