In Chapter Nine of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Kit and Mercy are co-teaching eleven small children from the town. Kit decides to have the kids act out the story of The Good Samaritan, but the play erupts into chaos as the boys start to misbehave. Mr. Eleazer Kimberley, the schoolmaster, discovers this ruckus and dismisses Kit from her teaching position. Devastated, Kit runs to the Meadow, where she is fed and comforted by Hannah Tupper, the titular "witch" of Blackbird Pond.
Thus, the "magic charm" that Hannah work on Kit is ridding her of "the rebellion that had been seething in the girl's mind for weeks"; she manages to calm down the girl's raging anxiety and soothe her belief that she does not (and cannot) fit into the Puritan community. Determined to make things right and find true peace, Kit uses the strength she has gathered from her conversation with Hannah to march up to Mr. Eleazer Kimberley's door and ask for one more chance.
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