It is so good to see you here!
We all blow opportunities. The point here I think is to take the opportunities that present themselves, and Miss Vitt isn't even considering taking them because of the sequestered environment in which she was raised.
She has been robbed of those opportunities by the Fundamentalist repression of her parents, and that's morally criminal, if it's not legally criminal. Further, if it's not legally criminal, there's a good case to made that it should be.
Perhaps that last thought is fodder for a spunky discussion of its own...
Kisses,
JanieBelle