It is just in the same way that many people rid themselves of thoughts about God.
All that long day, while the sunlight fell pink through the haze, Ann worked at renovating her own life and Christa's.

She took Christa and went to some girls of their acquaintance, and presented them with all the feathers, furbelows, and artificials which she and Christa possessed.

She cooked some of the viands which she had advertised for sale, and prepared all her small stock of kitchen utensils for the new avocation.

It was a long hard day's work, and before it was over the village was ringing with the news of all this change.

The minister had already called on Ann and Christa, saying suitable things concerning their father's terrible crime and their own sad position.