Robin hugged Ressie and nodded sadly, “You’re right, I should have known that nowadays, back then, I really shouldn’t have helped them.”
He and Calvin’s parents were friends, and when he heard the Lewis family say that someone was after them, he felt that he, as a friend, could not just ignore them, so he stepped in righteously, and risked the possibility of being dragged into trouble and also being killed, and without even thinking, he decisively stepped in to help them, and arranged for them to go to a hidden place, in order to keep them from being found by the killers.
But what happened? What did his family get in return? It was their son’s hatred, their son’s harm on Betty!