God's hand had led him to her.
It had been a blow to Anne's pride to realise that she had married--spiritually--beneath her.

Her pride now recovered wonderfully, seeing in this very inequality its opportunity.

She beheld herself superbly seated on an eminence, her spiritual opulence supplying Walter's poverty.

Spiritually, she said, it might also be more blessed to give than to receive.
Their marriage, in this its new, its immaterial consummation, would not be unequal.

She would raise Walter.