A few weeks ago she would have thought the
walk and the talk and everything delightful. But after Tom's airy
converse on the same level with herself, Godfrey's sounded indeed
wise--very wise--but dull, so dull! It is true the suspicion,
hardly awake enough to be troublous, lay somewhere in her, that
in Godfrey's talk there was a value of which in Tom's there was
nothing; but then it was not wisdom Letty was in want of, she
thought, but somebody to be kind to her--as kind as she should
like; somebody, though she did not say this even to herself, to
pet her a little, and humor her, and not require too much of her.
Physically, Letty was not in the least lazy, but she did not
enjoy being forced to think much. She could think, and to no very
poor purpose either, but as yet she had no hunger for the
possible results of thought, and how then could she care to
think? Seated on the edge of her bed, weary and wet and self-
accused, she recalled, and pondered, and, after her faculty,
compared the two scarce comparable men, until the voice of her
aunt, calling to her to make haste and come to tea, made her
start up, and in haste remove her drenched garments. The old lady
imagined from her delay she was out of temper because she had
sent for her home; but, when she appeared, she was so ready, so
attentive, and so quick to help, that, a little repentant, she
said to herself, "Really the girl is very good-natured!" as if
then first she discovered the fact.
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