Where could she go and what should she do?
There seemed no refuge for her in the wide world.

Instinctively she felt her grandmother would feel that a calamity had befallen them in losing the patronage of the manager of the ten-cent store.

Perhaps Lizzie would get into trouble.

What should she do?
She had reached the corner where she and Lizzie usually took the car for home.

The car was coming now; but she had no hat nor coat, and no money to pay for a ride.