Twenty times that night she started from her sleep, saying, "I will go where they shall never see me"; then rose with the dawn, and set herself to the hardest work she could find.
The next day was Sunday, and they all went to church.

Letty felt that Tom was there, too, but she never raised her eyes to glance at him.
He had been looking out in vain for a sight of her--now from the oak-tree, now from his bay mare's back, as he haunted the roads about Thornwick, now from the window of the little public-house where the path across the fields joined the main road to Testbridge: but not once had he caught a glimpse of her.
He had seated himself where he could not fail to see her if she were in the Thornwick pew.

How ill she looked! His heart swelled with indignation.
"They are cruel to her," he said; "that is plain.

Poor girl, they will kill her! She is a pearl in the oyster-maw of Thornwick.

This will never do; I _must_ see her somehow!" If at this crisis Letty had but had a real friend to strengthen and advise her, much suffering might have been spared her, for never was there a more teachable girl.