"Then I guess I'd better not stumble," she said, glancing up at him with a smile and tying off the bandage.

"Because I'm determined to walk as long as I'm able."

...she has her pride too. They might have dumped her in the middle of someplace strange and stuck wings on her back and ripped her away from her home, but she was still Molly Carpenter and at the very least she could walk on her own two feet.