Eustace won't want to follow me if he has you." But Dinah's hold instantly grew close and resolute.

"I shall not leave you," she said, with decision.
Isabel made no further attempt to persuade her.

She seemed to regard it as a matter of trifling importance.

Her one aim was to reach those glowing peaks that glittered far above the floating mists like the glories half-revealed of another world.
It was nothing to her that the road by which they had come should be blotted out.

She had no thought for that, no desire or intention to return.