What harm could come of it?
and, if harm did, how could she help it! If they had been kind to her, she would have told them everything, but they all frightened her so, she could not speak.

It was not her fault if Tom was the only friend she had! She _would_ ask his advice; he was sure to advise her just the right thing.

He had read that sonnet about the wise virgin with such feeling and such force, he _must_ know what a girl ought to do, and how she ought to behave to those who were unkind and would not trust her.
Poor Letty! she had no stay, no root in herself yet.

Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it possible, to be enough for himself; each of us needs God and every human soul he has made, before he has enough; but we ought each to be able, in the hope of what is one day to come, to endure for a time, not having enough.

Letty was unblamable that she desired the comfort of humanity around her soul, but I am not sure that she was quite unblamable in not being fit to walk a few steps alone, or even to sit still and expect.