"Do you wish to stay in the city, or to go out of it?"
"Oh to go out of it!" said Elizabeth, — "if I could — if I knew where."
"Where is your cousin?"
"She was at Vantassel; but she left it for some friend's house in the country, I believe. I don't want to be where she is."
Elizabeth's tears came again.
"It seems very strange —" she said presently, trying to put a stop to them, but her words stopped.
"What?" said Winthrop.
"It seems very strange, — but I hardly know where to go. I have no friends near — no near friends, in any sense; there are some, hundreds of miles off, in distance, and further than that in kind regard. I know plenty of people, but I have no friends. — I would go up to Wut-a-qut-o, if there was anybody there," she added after a minute or two.
"Shahweetah has passed into other hands," said Winthrop.
"I know it," said Elizabeth; — "it passed into mine."