"Yes, sir."
"Why?"
"I was in great fright, fearing he might be taken.... Also I pitied him."
"Why so?" I sneered.
"Because he had courted me at Caughnawaga.... And at first I think he made a sport of his courting,—like other young men of Tryon gentry who hunt and court to a like purpose.... And so, one day at Caughnawaga, I told him I was honest.... I thought he ought to know, lest folly assail us in unfamiliar guise and do us a harm."
"Did you so speak to this young man?"
"Yes, sir. I told him that I am a maiden. I thought it best that he should know as much.... And so he courted me no more. But every day he came and glowered at other men.... I laughed secretly, so fiercely he watched all who came to Cayadutta Lodge.... And then Sir John fled. And war came.... Well, sir, there is no more to tell, save that Captain Watts dared come hither."
"To take you in his arms?"
"He did so,—yes, sir,—for the first time ever."
"Then he is honestly in love with you?"