“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.”