She turned her large eyes, about which just then there were large circles, seriously, it would even seem rebukingly, upon Katie.

"If I ever should marry," she said, "it will be for some other reason than because it is 'advantageous.'" Katie felt both rebuked and startled.

Most of the girls she knew--girls who had never worked in factories or restaurants or telephone offices, or had never thought of taking their own lives, had not scorned to look upon marriages as advantageous.
Nor, for that matter, had Katie herself.
Ann's superior attitude toward marriage turned Katie to religion.

As the niece of a bishop she was moved to set Ann right on things within a bishop's domain.

And underlying that was an impulse to set her right with herself.
"Ann," she said, "if somebody said to you, 'I starve you in the name of Katie Jones,' wouldn't you say, 'Oh no you don't.