All her religious doctrines were those of the Low Church.

But she had a tendency to arrive at similar results by other means.

She was so afraid of the world, the flesh, and the devil, that she would fain shut up her child so as to keep her from the reach of all evil.

Vowed celibacy was abominable to her, because it was the resource of the Roman Catholics; and because she had been taught to believe that convent-walls were screens for hiding unheard-of wickedness.

But yet, on behalf of her child, she desired seclusion from the world, fancying that so and so only might security be ensured.