They weren't fair to her.
If they'd given her time and a real chance, everything might have been different.

But they didn't, they turned her down.

And feeling hurt and angry--and feeling besides how she'd have to grow--in her mind, I mean, and her interests, to take any place among people like that--I think she hesitated.

You might have helped her then, perhaps--but you didn't--and Amy was lazy, Joe--that had always been a part of her.

So she wouldn't make the effort.