"There! that has done me good," she said to herself--and kicked the fragments into a corner of the room.
She was now able to take a chair at the fireside, and shape out for herself the course which it was safest to follow.
Minna was first in her thoughts.

She could bend the girl to her will, and send her to Mr.Keller.But he would certainly ask, under what influence she was acting, in terms which would place the alternative between a downright falsehood, or a truthful answer.

Minna was truth itself; in her youngest days, she had been one of those rare children who never take their easy refuge in a lie.

What influence would be most likely to persuade her to deceive Fritz's father?
The widow gave up the idea, in the moment when it occurred to her.

Once again, "Jezebel's Daughter" unconsciously touched Jezebel's heart with the light of her purity and her goodness.