"You're welcome to stay, but you need to be useful and do what I say. Is that something you can live with?" this might work out how she wanted after all. He wasn't going to make it far outside of her forest, and he knew it. Having another person to help out would be quite beneficial, not to mention she'd have more to sell and barter with. She wanted him to stay for more than these reasons, of course, but he'd have to wait to find out the others.