I believe that August and her sisters were the kind of people that were willing to help anyone out, no matter what they're situation was. When they saw Lily and Rosaleen at their house asking for a place to temporarily stay, August must have known something was not right. Lily's story that she made up wasn't really believable and didn't make complete sence. But August still made a deal with them that they could live in the honey house for a little while as long as they helped out with the business and did some household chores.
"Why don't you just ask her point-blank what kind of trouble she's in?"
"Everything in time. The last thing I want is to scare her off with a lot of questions. She'll tell us when she's ready. Let's be patient" (Kidd 87).
This was a secretive conversation that June and August had one night. Lily just happened to overhear it. So even though August knew that Lily was lying, she continued to let her stay at her house. I think she let her stay because she truly cared about Lily and knew that she was in some sort of trouble. August did not want to see anything happen to Lily or Rosaleen. So she let them stay and hoped that sometime, when Lily was comfortable enough with her to tell her her true story, she would.
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Good point Sarah. August and her sisters were very forgiving people. They had an idea that Lily was in trouble and they knew that they couldn't just send her away. Lily did't have anyone else to turn to for a place to stay.
August and her sisters must have been really understanding to share their house with Lily when they knew that Lily was lying.
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