![]() ![]() When Cilla sees the constable on the street, she yells out a warning, causing Johnny to burn his hand severely on the molten silver. ![]() As Johnny toils late into the night, Cilla asks him why the job is so important to him, and Johnny reveals that his late mother told him on her deathbed that she was Lyte's sister, but warned him not to approach the cold-hearted Lyte unless he had been "forsaken by God." The teapot is to be delivered to Lyte on Monday, and on Sunday, even though law forbids work on the Sabbath, Cilla and Ephraim's wife help Johnny finish his work. Johnny cannot overcome his inexperience, however, and is obliged to ask silversmith Paul Revere for help. Ephraim warns the young man that he is too proud, but Johnny's continued determination impresses Ephraim's daughter Cilla. Although Ephraim feels he can no longer perform such delicate work, his apprentice, Johnny Tremain, accepts the job, knowing the payment will support the household for months. ![]() In Boston in 1773, wealthy Royalist Jonathan Lyte commissions aged silversmith Ephraim Lapham to recreate a teapot. ![]()
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