“I am sure that it is not.”

“And I say it is.”

“She did not come here for nothing.”

“She came to see me to cheer and comfort me, and, if she saw a chance to aid me to do so.”

“And she saw none?”

“How could she, a stranger in this fort, see what you cannot discover?”

“She came here to save you, I am sure.”

“If possible, and, seeing that it was impossible, she has gone, bidding me a last farewell and leaving me to my fate.”

“It is not like her.”

“It is all that she could do.”