She did not even say to herself, what would Tom do if she forgot and forsook him--and for what he could not help! for having left her because death took him away! But what was she to do?
She must not remain where she was.

No more must she tell his mother why she went.
She wrote to Mary, and told her she could not stay much longer.

They were very kind, she said, but she must be gone before Godfrey came back.
Mary suspected the truth.

The fact that Letty did not give her any reason was almost enough.

The supposition also rendered intelligible the strange mixture of misery and hardness in Godfrey's behavior at the time of Letty's old mishap.