She tried to support herself further by a chain of reasoning.

If all things were divinely ordered, this sorrow also was the will of God.

It was the burden she was appointed to take up and bear.
She bathed and dressed herself for the day.

She felt so strange to herself in these familiar processes that, standing before the looking-glass, she was curious to observe what manner of woman she had become.

The inner upheaval had been so profound that she was surprised to find so little record of it in her outward seeming.
Anne was a woman whose beauty was a thing of general effect, and the general effect remained uninjured.