human
Ma'amzelle, you will leave the Fort? You will let Bateese carry you out of danger? For me, of course, I stay with the Seigneur.
gpt
No, Dominique. All New France is dying around us, and I stay with my father to see the end. Perhaps at the last I shall need you to help me. She smiled bravely.
human
You have been trying to persuade my father, I know.
gpt
I have been trying to persuade him, and yet--yet--Oh, I will tell to you a wickedness in my heart that I could not tell even to Father Launoy! There was a moment when I thought to myself that even to have you die here and to die beside you were better than to let you go. Can you forgive me such a thought as that?
human
I forgive.
gpt
And will you grant one thing more?
human
What is it, Dominique?
gpt
A silly favour, ma'amzelle--but why not? The English will be here soon, maybe in a few hours. Let me call Bateese, and we three will be children again and go up to the edge of the forest and watch for our enemies. They will be real enemies, this time; but even that we may forget, perhaps.
human
Why, to be sure! she cried.
gpt
Let us fetch Bateese at once!