But none among the White Plains company could answer her; no, nor no Congress soldier that she asked.
"The soldiers were not unkind; they offered food and fire--as soldiers do, Loskiel," he added, with a flash of Contempt for men who sought what no Siwanois, no Iroquois, ever did seek of any maiden or any chaste and decent woman, white or red.
"I know," I said.

"Continue." "I offered shelter," he said simply.

"I am a Siwanois.

No women need to dread Mohicans.

She learned this truth from me for the first time, I think.