Cassie McCullough

In quite a pervy way, Kate, let's be honest about it.

She spies on them in the shed.

It means there wasn't much going on in Empty, I think.

But also, I mean, seriously, I suppose the purity of their love would have been a thing to behold in a place of such unabating horror.

Well, she's participated in a bit of defiance herself.

I mean, we learn right up at the beginning when we meet her that she had been forced to feed a child that she didn't want to breastfeed a baby.

And so she just poisoned it.

She put some sort of weed or something on her nipple.

And so the child died frothing at the mouth.

She's pretty hard, hard person, perhaps understandably.

But a lot of the women were very hard, actually.

Did you find that?

plantation they're not necessarily just being sweet and kind and benign to each other yeah they're really tough cookies yes and and this is what happens of course the affair between the two young men has been going on either seen or not seen or acknowledged or not acknowledged but then something in the dynamics of the plantation changes and the finger starts to point

Yes, because no one knew who the father of this pregnancy was because she had been having relations with both Amos and forced into one with Paul.

But of course, when it's born, it's clearly Amos.

white and blue-eyed.

And so she immediately calls the child Solomon as a reference back to King Solomon and that decision that he made about the two women fighting over a child.

It was a child essentially torn in half, metaphorically, this Solomon.

Yeah.

And, you know, there's the horrible truth at the heart of this, that children were created to be sold, to be used, to be labourers without any recompense for their work and also their suffering.