She had not yet learned that the right is the right, come of praise or blame what may.

The right will produce more right and be its own reward--in the end a reward altogether infinite, for God will meet it with what is deeper than all right, namely, perfect love.

But the more Letty thought, the more she was sure she must tell Mary; and, disapprove as she might, Mary was a very different object of alarm from either her aunt or her cousin Godfrey.
The first afternoon, therefore, on which she thought her aunt could spare her, she begged leave to go and see Mary.

Mrs.Wardour yielded it, but not very graciously.

She had, indeed, granted that Miss Marston was not like other shop-girls, but she did not favor the growth of the intimacy, and liked Letty's going to her less than Mary's coming to Thornwick..