I want you to be _safe_.

You don't know what it means--to be safe." With that she passed swiftly from her room.
Katie sat brooding over it for some time.

"If you've been in danger," she concluded, "you think it beautiful to be 'safe.' But if you've never been anything but 'safe'-- " Her smile finished that.
But Katie was more in earnest than her manner of treating herself might indicate.

To be safe seemed to mean being shielded from life.

She had always been shielded from life.