For what she did broke sanctuary.

According to the code of the Long House, the child belonged to the nation in which the mother was a captive.

And by the mother's act this child was dedicated to a stainless marriage with some other child who also had been hidden.

But the Red Sorcerer has perverted this ancient law; and when he would have taken the child to sacrifice it, then did the mother break the law of sanctuary and send her child away, knowing, perhaps, that the punishment for this is death.
"So you ask me whether or not she still lives.

And I say to you that I do not know; only I judge by the boasting of that vile Erie Cat that she has bought her life of them by dreaming for their Red Priest.