Dorothea is inclined to believe the best of everybody, of course.
Mr. Farebrother agrees with her, but doesn't know how they can go about vindicating Lydgate without asking him directly, and he would take that as an insult.
Dorothea isn't afraid of that, though. She has a feeling that Lydgate wouldn't mind her sympathy and support.
But Mr. Farebrother, Sir James, Mr. Brooke, and even Celia all tell her to wait and see.