She flew to her, stretching out her arms like a child, but was so feeble that she tripped and fell.

Mary lifted her, and laid her wailing on her couch.
"Letty," said Mary, "you didn't think I was going to leave you! But I must go for an hour, perhaps two, to make arrangements for staying with you till Tom is over the worst." Then Letty clasped her hands in her old, beseeching way, and looked up with a faint show of comfort.
"Be courageous, Letty," said Mary.

"I shall be back as soon as ever I can.

God has sent me to you." She drove straight home, and heard that Mrs.Redmain was annoyed that she had gone out.
"I offered to dress her," said Jemima; "and she knows I can quite well; but she would not get up till you came, and made me fetch her a book.
So there she is, a-waiting for you!" "I am sorry," said Mary; "but I had to go, and she was fast asleep." When she entered her room, Hesper gave her a cold glance over the top of her novel, and went on with her reading.

Mary proceeded to get her things ready for dressing.