Read the excerpt from "The Snow-Queen.”

"But cannot you give little Gerda something so that she can have power over her?”

"I can give her no greater power than she has already; don't you see how great it is? Don't you see how men and beasts must help her when she wanders into the wide world with her bare feet? She is powerful already, because she is a dear little innocent child. If she cannot by herself conquer the Snow-queen and take away the glass splinters from little Kay, we cannot help her! The Snow-queen's garden begins two miles from here. You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bush with red berries growing in the snow. Then you must come back here as fast as you can.”

Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda on the reindeer and away he sped.

The Finland woman refuses to give Gerda something to help her save Kay because she knows that

there is no way for Kay to be saved.
Gerda’s strength comes from within herself.
the reindeer has to share his powers with Gerda.
the Snow-queen must take away the glass splinters from Kay.