She had a gloomy expectancy of untoward circumstances, and with it a keen-edged curiosity to watch developments.

She had a half-formed conviction that her future conduct--as related to her churchmen--was beyond her control and would be governed by their attitude toward her.

Something was changing in her, forming, waiting for decision to make it a real and fixed thing.

She had told Lassiter that she felt helpless and lost in the fateful tangle of their lives; and now she feared that she was approaching the same chaotic condition of mind in regard to her religion.

It appalled her to find that she questioned phases of that religion.