To stay or to go

[Katie]

• ‘You might be safer here. I think you can guess my meaning’ (p.109). Widow Hesketh’s warning is the first independent acknowledgment of Mary as a witch. She explains that the New World is an even more dan- gerous place for her than England and makes Mary aware of the risk she causes to Martha. Why, then, does Mary decline the widow’s offer of work as her servant?

Would you have gone or stayed?