Well, I've told you.

Do what you can for me until you decide that you're grown up.
I'll wait." And he turned and went away, and presently she heard a door shut and echo, and slow footsteps in the street below.
Where was Martin?
VI She wanted Martin.

Everything that had happened that night made her want Martin.

He knew that she was a kid, and treated her as such.

He didn't stand up and try and force her forward into being a woman--although, of all men, he had the right.