heavily:

“Then you have not renounced your purpose?”

“No.”

“You still desire to go to Catharines-town?”

“I must go.”

“That was the burden of your conversation with the Sagamore but now?”

“Yes.”

“He refused to aid you?”

“He refused.”

“Why, then, are you not content to wait here — or at Albany?”

She sat for a long while with head lowered, then, looking up quietly:

“Another pair of moccasins was left outside my door last night.”