She answered, begging her to keep her mind easy about the future, and her friend informed of whatever concerned her.
This much from Mary was enough to set Letty at comparative ease.

She began to recover strength, and was able to write a letter to Godfrey, to leave where he would find it, in his study.
It was a lovely letter--the utterance of a simple, childlike spirit--with much in it, too, I confess, that was but prettily childish.

She poured out on Godfrey the affection of a womanchild.

She told him what a reverence and love he had been to her always; told him, too, that it would change her love into fear, perhaps something worse, if he tried to make her forget Tom.

She told him he was much too grand for her to dare love him in that way, but she could look up to him like an angel--only he must not come between her and Tom.