But for her invention of numberless kinds of employment, for which there was no actual need, these families of Gentiles, who had failed in a Mormon community, would have starved.
In aiding these poor people Jane thought she deceived her keen churchmen, but it was a kind of deceit for which she did not pray to be forgiven.

Equally as difficult was the task of deceiving the Gentiles, for they were as proud as they were poor.

It had been a great grief to her to discover how these people hated her people; and it had been a source of great joy that through her they had come to soften in hatred.
At any time this work called for a clearness of mind that precluded anxiety and worry; but under the present circumstances it required all her vigor and obstinate tenacity to pin her attention upon her task.
Sunset came, bringing with the end of her labor a patient calmness and power to wait that had not been hers earlier in the day.

She expected Judkins, but he did not appear.

Her house was always quiet; to-night, however, it seemed unusually so.