Chapters 3 to 6 discusses the struggle of loneliness and how one indecent moment can change the way you look and feel about someone. During the ending of chapter 2 Mr. Royall tries to force himself into Charity’s room and you can guess for what. This man has “raised” Charity since she was five years old, how can he even see her in that way. Thankfully she was strong enough to send him on his way and give him the cold shoulder. Afterwards she even demands that he hires a woman to stay in the house because she feels uncomfortable staying alone with him and that he helps her obtain the Librarian position at “The Honorius Hatchard Memorial Library”. She hates him and is disgusted by him even more when he asks for her hand in marriage.
Things between Charity and her “father” seem to be getting better when Lucius Harney (Miss Hatchards cousin) begins to pay Mr. Royall for the use of his buggy to travel around the village, so that he can draw some of the homes. Charity also begins to develops a friendship with Harney during this time. You can tell she is comfortable with him and feels somewhat safe with him because in the ending of chapter 5 she tells him that she is really from the Mountain, a place where everyone in the village believes all the people living up there are savages and outlaws who do not follow any laws or believe in God.
