The sequence that your question is asking about is the start to chapter six. Earlier, in chapter 5, Winnie discovered Jesse Tuck in the woods, and she saw him take a drink from the spring. As they are talking, Winnie decides that she too is thirsty and attempts to take a drink from the spring. Jesse tries to convince her otherwise.
"Why not?" said Winnie. She stood up. "It's mine, anyway, if it's in...
The sequence that your question is asking about is the start to chapter six. Earlier, in chapter 5, Winnie discovered Jesse Tuck in the woods, and she saw him take a drink from the spring. As they are talking, Winnie decides that she too is thirsty and attempts to take a drink from the spring. Jesse tries to convince her otherwise.
"Why not?" said Winnie. She stood up. "It's mine, anyway, if it's in the wood. I want some. I'm about dry as dust." And she went to where he sat, and knelt down beside the pile of pebbles.
"Believe me, Winnie Foster," said Jesse, "it would be terrible for you if you drank any of this water. Just terrible. I can't let you."
Just as it seems that Winnie is going to get her way and drink the water, Mae Tuck shows up. Jesse is relieved, because he doesn't know what to do with Winnie. Mae, however, swings into action. She forcibly picks up Winnie and puts her on the old horse. Together she and Jesse lead the horse out of the wood and back to their cottage.
First she was kneeling on the ground, insisting on a drink from the spring, and the next thing she knew, she was seized and swung through the air, open-mouthed, and found herself straddling the bouncing back of the fat old horse, with Miles and Jesse trotting along on either side, while Mae ran puffing ahead, dragging on the bridle.
Winnie believes that she is being kidnapped, but that is the farthest thing from Jesse's and Mae's minds. They want to take Winnie back to their house so they can explain who they are and what the water does.
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