And in his sorrow his nature sent a defiant _why_ back to the Power that had made Katy's fate so sad, and Mrs.Ferret's rasping way of talking about Katy's death as a divine judgment on him filled him with curses bitterer than Job's.
Miss Isa Marlay was an old-school Calvinist.

She had been trained on the Assembly's Catechism, interpreted in good sound West Windsor fashion.

In theory she never deviated one iota from the solid ground of the creed of her childhood.

But while she held inflexibly to her creed in all its generalizations, she made all those sweet illogical exceptions which women of her kind are given to making.

In general, she firmly believed that everybody who failed to have a saving faith in the vicarious atonement of Christ would be lost.