She was not in the habit of indulging herself in moods or reveries; still, within her grew a silent disapproval of Christa.

She felt herself superior to her.

After a while another thought came upon her with unexpected force.

Christa's motive for taking to the religious life was only self-interest; her own motive was the same; and was not that the motive which she really supposed hitherto to actuate all religious people?
Had she not, for instance, been fully convinced that self-interest was the sum and substance of Bart Toyner's religion?
Now between Bart Toyner and Christa and herself she felt that a great gulf was fixed.
Well, she did not know; she did not understand; she was not at all sure that she wanted to understand anything more about Bart Toyner and all the complex considerations about life which the thought of him seemed to arouse in her.

She felt that the best way of ridding herself of uncomfortable thoughts about him was to be busy in performing all that he could reasonably require at her hands.