Old Sib

Old Sib sits with Caleb's family on the steps beneath their house while the town's evening singing spreads around the harbour. The account describes her as a grandmother to everybody while denying that she is anyone's grandmother.

Appearance

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During the gathering beside the house, she keeps her shawl close around herself as the salt air rises cool from the harbour water.

In Chapters 1-4

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Chapter 4

Caleb briefly imagines Sib as a possible person who hummed the tune before, but he treats the suggestion as reassurance rather than knowledge. Later, on the lower stone, Caleb's inward account of the harbour includes Old Sib's voice alongside his father's and the voices of others. Those remembered voices urge him not to make much of what happened, to let the singing carry it as the town carries grief, and to leave the matter untouched.

Sources

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