“Madame, before we start there are things to prepare. We must eat on the way.”
“What food shall we carry?”
“Bread and smoked eels would keep us alive. I can perhaps buy these with my wampum girdle,” suggested Massawippa, who held the noble young dame beside her to be as dowerless as a Huron princess, and thought it no shame so to be.
“Why need you do that?” inquired Claire. “I have two or three gold louis left of the few I brought from France.”
“Gold, madame! Gold is so scarce in this land we might attract too much attention by paying for our supplies with it.”
“I have nothing else, so we must hazard it. And what must we take beside food and raiment?”
“Madame, we cannot carry any garments.”
“But, Massawippa, I cannot go to Dollard all travel-stained and ragged!”
“If we find him, madame, he will not think of your dress. Is he wedded to you?”