” As young as the boy was, I thought he would question my sanity if I told the truth. Alice Greenwood. How would she marry this boy? Or would it be marriage? And why hadn’t someone in my family mentioned that Rufus Weylin was white? ” p28

This quote was said by Dana when she meets Rufus again in his bedroom. As they talked and Dana learned more about him, she concluded that he was one of her ancestors. Somehow, Dana had went back in time to 1815 in Maryland and she is talking with her ancestor. When Rufus tells her his last name she thought it sounded familiar and when he spelled it out for her she confirmed that he was from her family line. She asks him about a girl named Alice and he says that she is a free black woman who is also his friend. Dana remembered about her family records, she recalls Grandmother Hagar Weylin who was born in 1831 and she listed her parents as Rufus Weylin and Alice Greenwood Weylin. Dana couldn’t tell Rufus about the situation she is in because Rufus probably wouldn’t believe her. In this quote Dana questions how Alice ended up with Rufus and questions if it even is marriage. Maybe it wasn’t a marriage, perhaps it was common for slave owners to rape their slaves. Maybe they fell in love and got married, Dana has many questions while being in 1815, but has no one to answer them.