Whatever effect the remonstrances of Thomas might or might not have upon the rest, Annie had heard enough to make her want to go to the missionar-kirk.

For was it not plain that Thomas Crann knew something that she did not know?
and where could he have learned it but at the said kirk?
There must be something going on there worth looking into.
Perhaps there she might learn just what she needed to know; for, happy as she was, she would have been much happier had it not been for a something--she could neither describe nor understand it--which always rose between her and the happiness.

She did not lay the blame on circumstances, though they might well, in her case, have borne a part of it.

Whatever was, to her was right; and she never dreamed of rebelling against her position.

For she was one of those simple creatures who perceive at once that if they are to set anything right for themselves or other people, they must begin with their own selves, their inward being and life.