"There's been any number of places you could have dragged me off and no one would have noticed. You're a man with height and weight on me, not to mention you wear a darker jewel. If you wanted to hurt me, there's nothing I could do. Still, though. You haven't. In my world, a man given the opportunity to be alone with a woman like me would have already taken what he desired and left me bleeding somewhere. It's enough to trust you for now."

Dark, perhaps, but Sansa wants to show she's not an idealistic woman. Her world is a dangerous one, perhaps as dangerous as this one, and she's seen things that don't endear her to optimism.

"I do trust you. I trust you not because you gave your word but because you had opportunity and you didn't act on it. It means your word is good."