The unintellectual are not so helpless.

Nature has taught the beasts of the field to fly when some unheralded danger threatens.
She has put into the small, unwise head of the chipmunk the untutored fear of poisons.

"He keepeth His creatures whole," was not written of beasts alone.

Carrie was unwise, and, therefore, like the sheep in its unwisdom, strong in feeling.

The instinct of self-protection, strong in all such natures, was roused but feebly, if at all, by the overtures of Drouet.
When Carrie had gone, he felicitated himself upon her good opinion.